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@_titanslayer_
Dec 30, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Here are some of the best books that I read in 2023. 📚

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Wael Hallaq, The Impossible State Image
Syed Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism Image
Joseph Masad, Islam in Liberalism Image
Domenico Lusordo, Liberalism a counter history Image
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Image
Joseph Henrich, The Weirdest People in the World Image
David Graeber, Debt: The first 5,000 years Image
SherAli Tareen, Defending Muhammad ﷺ in Modernity Image
Jonathan Brown, Misquoting Muhammad ﷺ Image
Shabir Akhtar (d. 2023), Quran and the Secular Mind Image
Hatem al-Haj, Between the God of the Prophets and the God of the Philosophers Image
George Saliba, Islamic Sciences and the Making of the European Renaissance Image
Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing Image
Alija Izetbegovic, Islam between East and West Image
Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin White Masks Image
Tom Nicholas, The Death of Expertise Image
Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism Image
Sherlock Holmes:

- The Great Adventure
- The Valley of Fear
- The Hounds of Baskerville Image

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Şerşeh Profile picture
Feb 3, 2024
Aligarh was not pro-British except for Sir Syed. It produced some of the most vocal anti-colonial figures. The Muslim League leadership were grads of Aligarh.

The Deoband became politically active in the 1920s during the Khilafat movement, which was led mostly by modernists.

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Kalam and Iqbal are also modernists in their theological and political orientations.

Figures like Mahmud Hasan & Ahmed Madani of Deoband were active in the Khilafat movement & had good relationships with modernists like Azad, Shaukat Ali Muhammad Ali and even Hindu figures.

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But even then, major figures of the Deoband movement like Ashraf Ali Thanawi were politically quietest.
For instance, he discouraged Muslims from participating in the Kashmir uprising in 1931. But figures like Ahmed Madani were politically active.

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Jan 29, 2024
I always respond to counter-arguments when they are backed up by academic references. That's why I have decided to respond to this brother because he made a strong case. Let's begin. Bismillah.
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"Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" by Jared Ruben: A Critique

[Rubin is an Associate Professor of Economics]

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Content:

1. The Main Arguments of the book

2. The Critique: Problematic Assumptions and Analysis

3. A New History of ‘The Rise of the West’

4. Conclusion

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Şerşeh Profile picture
Dec 30, 2023
Usually, people ask for the best doctor when they have health problems. But when it comes to knowledge the same people rely on a bunch of YouTubers with little to no expertise.

The truth is these people don't care about knowledge just as much as they care about their health.
As Pakistanis, we should think about this carefully. Why do we have a track record of turning any molehill - literally any random person- into a mountain.

This is frankly embarrassing.
A journalist abusing history & philosophy, a physicist butchering every single topic under the sun, random podcasters inviting non-experts to talk about sophisticated topics (bulldozing them as they go), a public speaker who wants an overhaul of entire Sunni legal tradition.
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Dec 28, 2023
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Enlightenment wasn't about some individuals who just woke and thought of democracy and constitutional govt out of nowhere. This book argues that it was part of centuries of psychological/cultural evolution that led to this.

But there's a huge bindsopt here.
@TheghostofMT

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Enlightenment was the time when NW Europe started studying & adopting foreign models of government, sciences & economics.
Chinese forms of govt (Leibnitz)
Islamic Sci. were translated and studied in the universities of Europe.
Indigenous American inspiration: freedom and equality
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Dec 23, 2023
About a month ago, I was reading these two books together and found that on the topic of hunter-gatherers and the evolution of human societies, these books were arguing for two different points of view about human history.

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Point of contention:

Henrich argues that modern states emerged from chiefdoms, and chiefdoms are based on kinship ties, and that human societies evolved from hunter-gatherers to agriculture societies and later on to empires. This is commonly accepted in anthropology.Image
Graeber & Wengrow intervene:

Based on their research on hunter-gatherers of the past 25,000 - 15,000 years (before and during Ice Age), hunter gatherers did not transition from hunters to agriculture or farming societies.Image
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Dec 23, 2023
Equality is a modern concept. The notion that all human beings regardless of the differences in their culture, tradition, religion, ethnicity, or socioeconomic factors be considered or treated the same is modern.
The right "ordering of things," to borrow a quote from Foucault,
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would be to treat humans differently based on their needs. But this will be nearly impossible for any unitary modern state to cater to the different societies.

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In the Sultanate, for example, the Sultan was not concerned with the private laws of the subjects. The only things that came under his domain were the public domain and public laws.
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