Making Sense of Islam
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Making Sense of Islam
Meditations on strategy, mindfulness, and Islam
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Ep 102 Imam Mohamed Magid
Mohammed Magid is an outstanding figure in interfaith activities, Imam Magid is the Executive Director and Imam at the ADAMS Centre in Virginia, and f...
Ep 101 Sameera Qureshi
Over the last twelve years of her professional career, Sameera has worked closely with Muslim communities (and professionals who serve them), developi...
Ep 100.5
This is a continuation of episode 100 where I get a chance to answer the remaining questions sent by all of you.
Ep 100 Tarek Elgawhary
Dr. Tarek Elgawhary is a scholar of Islam and comparative religions having studied at both Princeton University and al-Azhar Seminary. He is the creat...
Ep. 99: Shaykh Muhamad Al-Ninowy
Shaykh Dr. Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy is the Founder and Director of Madina Institute, an Islamic seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, with campuses in Sou...
Ep. 98: Omar Matadar
Omar Matadar is currently the Director of the Qasid Institute. The word qasid is used to describe a path that is direct and smooth. This is the way we...
Ep. 97: Mikhaael Mala
Mikhaael Mala is arising nashheed star and world-renown reciter and teacher of the Quran. He is currently based in Birmingham, UK.
Ep. 96: Sohaib Interview
Sohaib N. Sultan is the first full-time Muslim Life Coordinator and Chaplain at Princeton University. Imam Sultan is a graduate of the Hartford Theolo...
Peter Ep. 95: Peter Sanders
Born in London, Sanders began his career in photography in the mid-1960s, where he often recorded the faces of well-known musicians including Bob Dyla...
Ep. 94: Michael (Haroon) Sugich Harun
Michael Sugich is a native of Santa Barbara, California and studied at UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. He was initiated into a traditio...
Ep. 93: Imam Zaid Shakir
Zaid Shakir, a cofounder of Zaytuna College, is a prominent American Muslim scholar. He has taught courses in Arabic, Islamic spirituality, contempora...
Ep. 92: Muna Abu Sulayman
Muna AbuSulayman is an international development expert with over 25 years in cross sectorial work focusing on women empowerment, media, philanthropy,...
Ep 91: Mubin Shaikh
Mubin Shaikh is a former Muslim supremacist turned undercover operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Poli...
Ep. 90: Rabia Chaudry
Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, advocate, and author of the New York Times bestselling book "Adnan's Story" and Executive Producer of a four-part HBO do...
Ep. 89: Navid Akhtar
Navid is the Founder and CEO of Alchemiya.com, a video streaming service that showcases the best movies, dramas, docs and lifestyle content about Musl...
Ep. 88: Dr Walead Mohammed Mosaad
Dr. Walead Mohammed Mosaad is an internationally recognized scholar in Islamic studies and human development. His academic and traditional training ha...
Ep. 87: Not having a beard or hijab
Someone reached out to ask if we can consider non-beard wearing men and non-hijab wearing women believers and Muslims. Please listen for the quick, de...
Ep. 86: Ahmed Younis
Ahmed Younis is committed to the untested feasibility of what is possible through the process of always becoming.
Ahmed was raised betw...
Ep. 85: Abdul-Rehman Malik
Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award winning journalist, educator and cultural organizer. In June 2019 he was appointed Lecturer and Associate Research Scho...
Ep. 84: How To Find A Shaykh
Some of my thoughts on how to find a Shaykh. What sort of criteria should you use to take religious knowledge from someone? How do you know if someone...
Ep. 83: Muddassar Ahmad
Muddassar Ahmed is Managing Partner at Unitas Communications Ltd, a British strategic communications consultancy, where he’s led on projects for the U...
Ep. 82: Eating Halal Meat
What constitutes halal meat and can we meat that's just "out there?" Take a listen and get the details on this oft asked question.
Ep. 81: Allie Khalfe
Allie Khalfe, founder of the IslamicText Institute in Cape Town, is a pioneering author with the ability to translate classical and traditional Arabic...
Ep. 80: Mona Aburmishan
Mona is an international comedian and Emcee who has performed, emceed, and produced comedy shows, competitions and events in major clubs, theaters and...
EP. 79: COVID-19
This is a special episode to address the current COVID-19 pandemic. I hope that these thoughts and resources will help you all navigate this safely an...
Ep 78: Khuram Zaman
Khuram Zaman is the CEO of Fifth Tribe, a leading digital agency serving the Washington DC Metropolitan Area based out of the 1776 Startup Co-working...
Ep 77- In Shaykhs Clothing
"In Shaykh's Clothing" is a service and website to support survivors of spiritual abuse around the world, and to prevent spiritual abuse through educa...
Ep. 76: Hena Khan Episode
Hena Khan is an award winning Pakistani American children’s author. Her middle grade novel Amina’s Voice was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Washingt...
Ep. 75: Umar Lee
Umar Lee is a writer and activist from St Louis currently living in the Dallas metro area. He has been published in Politico, The Guardian, The Nation...
Ep. 74: Bid'a/Innovation
There is probably no more abused word in our contemporary religious discourse than bid'a/innovation. Is there room in Islam for innovation, iteration,...
Ep. 73: Music
"What does Islam say about music?" is perhaps one of the top 10 questions Muslims ask every day. This episode seeks to lay down some basic ground work...
Ep. 72: Diplomacy
This particular episode was a suggestion from a listener. Diplomacy is a large, large topic and this episode in no way, shape, or form answers all the...
Ep 71 Islamic Principles #26 Making Islam Look Good
We all know the common complaint that Islam looks bad and is misrepresented. It doesn't help that it seems often times the worst elements of our commu...
Ep. 70: Islamic Principles #25: Passing On Islam
We frequently hear the statement that Islam is valid for all time, place, and circumstance. Yet, the key underlying question associated with that stat...
Ep 69 Islmaic Principles 24 Men & Women
This was a hard episode for me to put together. There is so much back-and-forth today about issues of gender relations, how Islam treats women, inheri...
Ep 68 Islamic Principles #23 Charity
Muslims talk about charity a lot, but mostly in the context of the community in need of charitable help. As a first principle, however, charity is mor...
Ep. 67: Islamic Principles #22: Coexistence
While I covered models of coexistence previously on this podcast, here I take several steps back to consider the concept of coexistence from a princi...
Ep. 66: Islamic Holidays #11: Hajj Season
The Hajj pilgrimage is the largest communal devotional act Muslims preform. While it is the trip of a lifetime, the blessings surrounding it are not...
Ep. 65: Understanding The Self (nafs)
This episode is a brief commentary on َQuran 45:23. It explores the power of the lower self and how only by turning to God can we dig ourselves out of...
Ep. 64: Conflict, Perspective, & Time
Why are some people passionate about issues that we might not care about? Why are some people willing to fight one another, indeed go to war against o...