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How do Muslims deal with what looks like the comprehensive success of Western civilisation. Is it time to accept defeat, as one writer put it? Or does Islam have something to offer the world that can move us beyond this dysfunctional world.
Our guest today is Hasan Spiker, he argues that modernity is not neutral. The assumption is that modernity is regarded as universal is false. He argues that modernity is Western and its embrace is a means to Western hegemony and domination. He is the author of this soon to be published work, published on the 26th November – The Unraveling of Intelligibility.
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How do Muslims deal with what looks like the comprehensive success of Western civilisation. Is it time to accept defeat, as one writer put it? Or does Islam have something to offer the world that can move us beyond this dysfunctional world.
Our guest today is Hasan Spiker, he argues that modernity is not neutral. The assumption is that modernity is regarded as universal is false. He argues that modernity is Western and its embrace is a means to Western hegemony and domination. He is the author of this soon to be published work, published on the 26th November – The Unraveling of Intelligibility.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
1:58 – Muslims Disempowered?
4:34 – What is Modernity?
9:42 – Metaphysics and progress
14:51 – Islam and modernity
19:00 – The 5 Bifurcations
24:20 – Importance of Sharia
25:36 – Separating sacred from spirit
27:58 – Sharia vs Spiritual
29:57 – The second bifurcation
37:43 – Protestantism and secularism
41:02 – Nation-state and modernity
44:06 – Liberalism development
49:52 – The third bifurcation
53:02 – Reasoning religious belief
56:38 – Empirical vs Metaphysics
59:10 – The fourth bifurcation
1:08:21 – non-recognition of Metaphysics
1:11:40 – The final bifurcation
1:13:47 – The west’s Machiavellianism
1:17:20 – Liberalism’s Façade
1:19:18 – Gaza western hegemony
1:27:17 – Ideologies and modernity
1:31:58 – Islams counter-hegemony
1:41:41 – City of Love
1:45:51 – Strength of modernity
1:50:30 – Islam will save modernity
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