Podcasts by Left or Right? The Straight Path Please

First Wave Feminism and The Suffrage Movement: How Is It Relevant to Muslim women?? from 2020-07-13T09:00

We embark on our study of Western feminism by examining its historical development through the first wave of women's struggle for equality: The suffrage movement.

We focus on England as a ...

The Straight Path: A Sociological Perspective from 2020-07-03T09:00

After exploring the sociological theories of the Right and Left, we turn now to the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition to see how our own scholars have observee and theorized society. Listen

MISK Women Facebook Live #1 Recording from 2020-06-25T09:00

MISK Women presented our first FB Live on June 23, 2020 on our private group MISK Women Halaqa.

This is an unedited recording of the session, uploaded for those who were unable to attend. ...

Marxism: Origins, Impacts and Influences from 2020-06-18T13:30

Join us in this episode as we explore Marxism, the fundamental ideology of leftist thinking in the contemporary world. Due to the prevalence of Marxist thought in all spheres of political, eco...

The Genealogy of Conservatism: From the Magna Carta to Modernity from 2020-06-10T15:30

This episode introduces an historical overview of the political, economic and social philosophies of the Right.

We look at the development of 'reason' and the 'reasonable' man who sought f...

European Colonialism And The Status Quo: From A Surah al-Fatihah Perspective from 2020-05-26T10:30

We take a brief overview and analysis of the most significant events in the last 500 years of European history, in order to understand the basis and foundations of modern Western society.

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Bonus Episode: A Summary of the Surah al-Fatihah Worldview in Six Questions from 2020-05-18T17:00

Join us for an overview and roundup of the key concepts in Surah al-Fatihah in six short questions.

We are reminded to check ourselves by the question asked of us in the Quran: "Where are...

Part 2 - The Voluntary Journey: Surah al-Fatihah and The Choices We Make in Our Daily Life from 2020-05-18T16:45

The Voluntary Journey means the choices that we make in our daily life.

What informs our choices and to what extent do our choices reflect our al-Fatihah informed understanding of being on...

Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey: Imam al-Haddad's The Lives of Man from 2020-05-11T17:30

In this episode we look at how some of the scholars of our rich, intellectual tradition have conceptualized existence and understood its parts to contain anywhere from one to 100,000 levels of ...

Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey from 2020-05-03T09:30

What is the 'Involuntary Journey'?

We establish the first part of our al-Fatihah world view by understanding this fundamental aspect of human existence, from the ب in the ...

Welcome to Surah al-Fatihah - The Straight Path Journey Starts Here from 2020-04-27T10:15

• We conclude our discussion on ideologies by looking at what they actually do...
• Our journey into the Qur'an begins by discussing its definition.
• We start to establish the fo...
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Theory and Ideology - What you talkin'about? from 2020-04-19T13:30

• The definition of theory and ideology.
• When does theory become ideology?
• The importance of understanding these core concepts in order to comprehend our contemporary world c...
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What do you'see'when an interpretive lens is applied to a context? from 2020-04-09T17:45

Ok-now we are getting into it! How are certain realities in certain contexts conceptualized, what concepts and ideas are interpretive frameworks developed from and what does one 'see' in that co...

Welcome to contextual competence (how to understand and live in the modern world) from an Islamic perspective! from 2020-04-09T15:00

Welcome to MISK Women's series in contextual competence! We study the modern world, its dominant theories and ideologies and how to analyse and critique them from a traditional Islamic perspecti...