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Şerşeh🍁 Profile picture
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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
Aug 17
Excessive use of social media reduces comprehension ability and reading stamina. you can't focus on dense, complex ideas if you are using social media 6-8 hours/day everyday.

even if you read 3-4 hrs and then use social media, you are still damaging your brain and memory.
i have been experimenting this recently. the day i use social media a lot, i can't focus on reading for the next 2 days.

i have also noticed during this time, i don't even want to read. it's like my desire for reading dies temporarily.
on a normal day, i read about a 100-200 pages (revision included). i read mutliple books and that requires a lot of reading stamina because every time you open a new book, you need lots of energy to understand the ideas from scratch.
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Jul 1
Elica argues that even if the acts of the IDF were as brutal or terroristic as Hamas we can still make no moral equivalencies. Because the IDF is protecting its people, whereas Hamas wants to kill everyone. The diff. is "INTENTION".

Let's explore this logic of liberal warfare 🧵 Image
Liberalism warfare logic:

Kill as many civilians as you like so long as you express remorse & regret at the end. That's why Guantanamo Bay, the vast network of American torture cells in Europe, the brutal sanctions, etc., were legally and morally justified by liberals.

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As Elica says, the intention is different. IDF can self-referentially justify its actions and claim moral superiority.

When we look at the history of western warfare we see how the lines between civilian and combatant was blurred deliberately sometimes.
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Jun 27
“Where did the name Palestine come from?”
Answer:
1. “The name ‘Palestine’ is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze Age (1300 BC onwards)”

2. “Throughout the classical age of antiquity (..)classical antiquity to Middle Ages (..)the word ‘Palestine remains the most common.” Image
3. “Herodotus was the first historian to denote a region called Palaistinê.” Image
“Palestine is found on the earliest maps beginning with late Antiquity and the famous world map of Ptolemy (170 AD) Image
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Apr 27
"5000 years of history" is a myth that the British colonial historiography created where they divided the history of the region into 3 distinct phases: Ancient (Indic), Medieval (Islamic), Modern (British Colonialism).
This was parallel to how West's history was framed during
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the Enlightenment era in the West. This historiography justified the colonial rule as a just rule to liberate the "native Indians" from the despotism of the foreigners, i.e., Muslims.

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The narrative was further accepted by the Republic of India. Nehru wholeheartedly endorsed this fictitious colonial historiography churned up by British colonial officials who were part-time historians.

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Mar 5
The conflict between natural philosophy and scientific observations/mathematical astronomy was already evident by Ptolemy's time.

In early 11th century, there was a huge public live debate between Ibn Sina and Al-Biruni. The former being the foremost Aristotelian, the latter, +
one of the biggest mathematical astronomers of his time. The topic of debate was the relationship between science and philosophy as distinct schools of thought.
The debate is long but the important point is this:

By this time, it was understood as a given that mathematical astronomy and scientific endeavours are not supposed to be under the authority of doctrines of natural philosophy such as Aristotelian physics and cosmology.
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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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