Episodes

Sunday Oct 26, 2014
HoP 195 - Anke von Kügelgen on Contemporary Islamic Thought
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
Anke von Kügelgen joins Peter to discuss developments over the last century or so, including attitudes towards past thinkers like Avicenna, Averroes and Ibn Taymiyya.

Sunday Oct 19, 2014
HoP 194 - Iran So Far - After Ṣadrā
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
From Sabzawārī in the 19th century to Seyyed Hossein Nasr today, Iranian thinkers promote and respond to the thought of Mullā Ṣadrā.

Sunday Oct 12, 2014
HoP 193 - All for One and One for All - Muḥammad 'Abdūh and Muḥammad Iqbāl
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Muḥammad 'Abdūh and Muḥammad Iqbāl challenge colonialism and the traditional religious scholars of Islam.

Monday Oct 06, 2014
HoP 192 - The Stronger Sex - Women Scholars and Islam
Monday Oct 06, 2014
Monday Oct 06, 2014
Fatema Mernissi and others challenge the long-standing (but not complete) exclusion of women from the intellectual traditions of Islam.

Friday Oct 03, 2014
HoP 191 - The Young Ones: Encounters with European Thought
Friday Oct 03, 2014
Friday Oct 03, 2014
18th and 19th century intellectuals in India and the Ottoman empire, from Shāh Walī Allāh to the Young Turks, continue Islamic traditions and grapple with European science.