The Insight Interviews

An informative discussion with Dr. Cyrus Zargar’s book “The Ethics of Karbala – Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility” Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

An informative discussion on Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala’s book “Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam - A Study on the Sermon of Fatima” Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

An informative discussion with Dr. Muhammad U. Faruque on his book “Sculpting the Self - Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing" Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

An informative discussion with Dr. Alessandro Cancian, on his book “The Emergence of Shi'i Sufism - Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi and His Commentary on the Qur'an” Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

An informative discussion with Dr Hannah-Lena Hagemann on her book “The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition” Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

Dr. George Warner, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter, dives into the intricate world of Shia hadith literature and its evolution within Islamic thought. He elaborates on Shaykh al-Saduq's significant contributions and the debates with Al-Mufid that shaped early Shia scholarship. Warner discusses the impact of these texts on Shia identity and communal values, examining compiler intentions and the influence of absence on scholarship. Their layered journey provides a unique lens on Sunni-Shia relations and the nuances of hadith reliability.

An informative discussion with Dr. Farah Kawtharani on her book, "Political Thought in Contemporary Shi’a Islam". Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series 'The Insight Interviews', promises to be an engaging conversation. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

Timestamps listed below An informative discussion with Dr. Mojdeh Shariatmadari, Founder and Director, Alaa Cultural Institute Tehran. The topic of discussion will be the role of psychology and its study in Islam and Shi'ism. Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation. 00:00 / Beginning 00:29 / Guest Introduction 02:15 / Discussing the link between psychology and spirituality 03:13 / Her journey to Islamic and Shia spiritual psychology 05:54 / Looking at the Shīʿī duʿāʾ corpus 07:02 / What is spiritual psychology? 08:01 / The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health by John F. Schumaker 09:49 / Breaking down spiritual psychology 10:10 / Divine love in Shīʿism and its connection to the subject 10:20 / Viewing Wilāya as a divine friendship 10:55 / Love of ʿAlī is a part of faith - ḥubbu ʿAlī min al-īmān 12:27 / Whoever loves you (the infallibles), loves God - al-Ziyāra al-Jāmiʿa al-Kabīra 12:52 / Wilāya as the most significant differentiating factor in Shīʿī spiritual psychology 15:44 / The role of duʿāʾ (supplication) in spiritual pyschology 17:19 / Is there such a thing as "Islamic psychology" and how can we define terms? 21:47 / Discussing the earliest written work on Islamic spiritual psychology 24:35 / Abu Zayd al-Balkhī and his 9th century work on mental health 27:24 / What is unique about the Twelver Shīʿī concept of saʿāda (flourishing) 30:16 / Theory of the personality in Islamic spirituality 32:14 / What exactly is spiritual flourishing? 34:17 / Dr. Martin Seligman's theory of well being 36:15 / Mourning for Imam Husayn and its connection to well being 43:44 / Loneliness and Islamic Spiritual Pscyhology 49:12 / The relationship between wilāya and inner peace 55:03 / How would Shīʿism treat the concept of grief and loss? 58:15 / Grief treated through the lens of religious history 59:05 / Conclusion The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

An informative discussion with Dr. Aun Hasan Ali, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, in the Department of Religious Studies, at the University of Colorado Boulder. The topic of discussion will be his latest book, ‘The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition‘, which provides the first extensive overview of the contribution of Shiʿī scholars who belonged to the school of Ḥillah (a city in Southern Iraq). This city and the scholars who hailed from there went on to become some of the most prolific producers of knowledge who had a lasting impact on the formation of Twelver Shīʿism. Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation. Dr. Aun Hasan Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at CU Boulder. He received his PhD from McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies. His research centers on Islamic intellectual history and he is the author of various publications. The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/

Timestamps listed below An informative discussion with Dr. Cyrus Ali Zargar, Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Central Florida. The topic of discussion will be his latest book, The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism, an accessible monograph on virtue ethics in Islam as theorized and narrated by philosophical as well as mystical authors, both from the classical and the medieval periods. Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, the seventh instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation. 0:00:00 / Start 0:00:26 / Introduction 0:02:55 / Distinction between Greek virtue ethics and Islamic ethics 0:06:01 / Enlightenment, European ethics and divergence with Islamic ethics 0:08:59 / The role of moral theology in Islam 0:11:50 / Difference Philosophy and Sufism in Islamic ethics 0:12:50 / Nasir al-Din al-Tusi on Ibn Sina 0:15:09 / Canonical/revealed sources of knowledge and rational sources: Is there a tension? 0:22:31 / Thriving as a human being 0:25:46 / Tolerating people as a virtue ethic 0:27:52 / Did the Qur'an and hadith influence the articulation of virtue ethics of philosophers? 0:29:32 / Philosophers and Sufism on concept of aql (intellect) 0:34:15 / The Brethren of Purity ( Ikhwan al-Safa) and Islamic ethics 0:38:57 / Brethren of Purity drew certain concepts from a common Islamicate vocabulary 0:42:23 / Were the Brethren of Purity working with Indian concepts as well? 0:45:53 / The presence of a teleological framework that runs through these discussions 0:46:55 / Is modern virtue devoid of a teleology? 0:50:03 / Role of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq in virtue ethics 0:52:32 / How a prostitute guided a pious man: A Narrative 0:58:25 / Futuwwa (manliness) in Islamic virtue 1:02:23 / Toxic masculinity and modern gender roles in an islamic context 1:03:44 / Conclusion The Insight Interviews: An informative series of academic discussions, taking a deeper dive on a variety of unique topics. Learn more at https://shiaresearch.ca/insight-interviews View the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgu_sYFBPFVV5yBiwTU9snnvMmMlw41gp Follow us on: Instagram: https://instagram.com/ShiaResearchIns Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShiaResearchIns Facebok: https://facebook.com/ShiaResearchIns Contribute to SRI to help us continue creating high quality research and content: https://shiaresearch.ca/donate/