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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UpFront – February 28, 2025