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Jun 2022
9m 30s

S1 Ep8a Pedagogy

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When colonial powers entered Muslim lands, pedagogy was harnessed as a weapon. In erasure of the intellectual pillars of Islamic civilization, the laymen’s assuming of scholarly authority and the scholar’s assuming of the laymen’s taqlid are no worse than each other. In the dizziness of reversed realities, only full-faceted Tradition can set the Umma back on ... Show More
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