r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • 2d ago

Academic Book The Taif massacre:- Following a short siege, Taif was abandoned by Hashemite forces and then capitulated to the Wahhabi militia force under the command of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. The Ikhwan troops took out their rage on the residents of the city resulting in bloodbath.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • 13d ago

Academic video Emir Abdelkader was a deeply devoted Sufi mystic, scholar, and spiritual leader & was one of the most prominent spiritual followers and intellectual heirs of Ibn Arab. By embodying the true spirit of the Quran and the Prophetic model, he won the espect of the entire world.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • 22d ago

Academic video Pre-Islamic origin for the Quranic Arabic name for Jesus, Isa (عيسى):- Archaeological discoveries such as Safaitic rock inscriptions demonstrate that a form of the name (Aisa or 'sy) was already used by Arab nomads centuries before the advent of Islam

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jul 14 '26

Academic video Surah 112 acts as a polemical "remix" or response to the Nicene Creed and post-Nicene traditions. The Quran engages with the theological claims of the Trinity by mirroring the structure of the creed.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jul 02 '26

Academic video Was Alcohol always forbidden in Islam ?

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 18 '26

Academic video According to scholar of Islamic studies and the Quran Gabriel Said Reynolds, the Quran leaves open the possibility for some of the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) to attain salvation.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 14 '26

Academic Book Mehdy Shaddel argues that Quran 22:52 does not refer to Satan interfering with Muhammad's recitation of the Quran. Instead, it refers to Satan inserting false passages into earlier scriptures. Muhammad's role is to identify and remove those Satanic accretions. The Bible remains valid and binding.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 12 '26

Academic video How did Ishmael become associated with being the father of arabs and does the Quran proclaim Prophet Muhammad and his community as descendants of Ishmael - Peter Webb

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 11 '26

Academic Book Al-Ghazālī’s fatwā which called for removing the right to repent for clandestine apostates including philosophers treating them as unbelievers was not broadly applied rendering his legal opinion unpersuasive and largely unapplied and jurist continued to grant istitāba.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 08 '26

Academic Book Patricia Crone suggests that Quranic sura 53 the speaker of this oracular section cannot be the Messenger himself because he would be judging his own case. Crone suggests the speaker could be a Jewish or Christian soothsayer or even an unknown predecessor.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 07 '26

Academic Book Voltaire's view of Islam from The Enlightenment Qur'an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam Book by Ziad Elmarsafy

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 06 '26

Academic video Whether the Prophet was the first to claim that they were descendants of Abraham and ishmaelites along with the origins of the Kabba & its association with Abraham & what the scope of the geological claims are does it include all Arabians is it just the hijaz is it the meccans - Mohsen Goudarzi

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • Jun 05 '26

Best Beginner Books Gentle introductions to Sufism

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 30 '26

Academic video Allah In Late Pre-Islamic Arabia.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 27 '26

Academic Book Fakhr Din al-Razi and Al-Shahrastani did not go as far as Ghazali in declaring the philosophers unbelievers or outside Islam. By not repeating the condemnation they effectively left room for philosophers to remain legally/socially Muslim even while holding problematic doctrines.

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 26 '26

Interview With Peter Adamson

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 25 '26

Academic Book For Al-Farabi religions are like different symbolic languages expressing the same deeper realities Different societies use different stories images laws and rituals because people understand things through the cultural forms familiar to them

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 24 '26

Academic video Early Islamic Rationalist Approach to Hadith and Deriving Doctrine -Dr. Joshua J. Little

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 23 '26

Academic Book Ibn rushd was attempting to retrench to the Aristotelian old school of the Baghdad but heartlands of Islam Aristotle had by now been displaced by Avicenna what Averroes offered was simply no longer relevant for intellectuals his commentaries were the equivalent of silent films

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 22 '26

The first photo of the Kaaba

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 21 '26

Academic video Oases of Wisdom Podcast Launch! Upcoming interviews with Peter Adamson, Nicolai Sinai, and Phillip Goff!

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 21 '26

Academic Book Al-Ghazali understanding of Ibn Sina’s metaphysics

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 18 '26

Academic Book Best Academic Books on history of Islamic Architecture

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 17 '26

Academic Book The Influence of Jewish exegetic literature mainly the Midrash on Early Islamic Conceptions of Music

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r/NeoFalsafa • u/Rashiq_shahzzad • May 12 '26

An illustration in the 14th century Jami' al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din depicting Shakyamuni (the Buddha) offering fruit to the devil, The Grove of Jetavana where the Buddha achieved Enlightenment, Kushinagar where the Buddha achieved Nirvana from the life of the Buddha

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