PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 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...
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PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 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...
Read moreEp. 69: Islamic Principles #24: Men & Women
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 69: Islamic 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...
Read moreEp. 68: Islamic Principles #23: Charity
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 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...
Read moreEp. 67: Islamic Principles # 22: Coexistence
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 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...
Read moreEp. 56: Islamic Principles #20: The Environment
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 56: Islamic Principles #20: The Environment We cannot be who we are or do the things we do except through and by the natural world around us. The Quran and Hadith...
Read moreEp. 55: Islamic Principles #19: Benefiting from Others
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 55: Islamic Principles #19: Benefiting from Others The boundaries of civilizations and religions are fundamentally porous. It is common for them to speak to one another...
Read moreEp. 54: Islamic Principles #18: Towards an Islamic Paradigm
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 54: Islamic Principles #18: Towards an Islamic Paradigm In our current context it is common to hear discussions about the compatibility or non compatibility of Islam with...
Read moreEp. 51: Islamic Principles #17: Sufism
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 51: Islamic Principles #17: Sufism Sufism is a very important part of my life, and in previous episodes (17,19,20,21,22) I covered the spiritual discipline from the...
Read moreEp. 50: Islamic Principles #16: Dealing with the Past
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 50: Islamic Principles #16: Dealing with the Past A frequent question is, “how do we deal with our intellectual past?” Is the past just that, the past, or is there benefit...
Read moreEp. 48: Islamic Principles #15: The Subtle Moment
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 48: Islamic Principles #15: The Subtle Moment There is no denying that Islamic law has a lot of literature about slavery and the freeing of slaves (known as manumission)...
Read moreEp. 47: Islamic Principles #14: Splittings Sharia Rulings
PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 47: Islamic Principles #14: Splittings Sharia Rulings Not everything we encounter is black and white. Islamic law takes that into consideration and contains within it a...
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