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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Mar 9

I haven’t written a blogpost for some time but this is something related to a new reading group which I’m convening where we are reading Jurjani’s gloss on Tasdid al-qawa’id #kalam #Islamic_philosophy mullasadra.blogspot.com/2025/03/tajr...

Tajrīd and the theological traditions: How best to define the science of ʿilm al-kalām

Over the years, I have written a few posts about the Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād or Tajrīd al-ʿaqāʾid of the famous Imāmī philosopher-scientist-th...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Mar 4

Here is the link to the series on our YouTube page youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Monday Majlis series (Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI)) - YouTube

The CSI Monday Majlis is a an online event at 17:00-18:30 UK time on each Monday during term time, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Mar 4

Right you are - it was this Monday - the recording will be on our YouTube channel soon

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Mar 4

Sari Hanafi from AUB speaking at our #MondayMajlis next week - the registration link is here eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Mar 4

Palestine in a World on Fire

Join Ilan Pappé, Katherine Natanel, and @lalehkhalili.bsky.social as they connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world.

Monday, March 10th at 11AM ET / 4PM GMT

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Feb 26

IAIS and the CSI invite all to attend our next Monday Majlis Virtual Seminar on Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿAṭṭār with Cyrus Ali Zargar
Register: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Feb 18

Join us this coming Monday at #IAIS to discuss Vernon Schubel’s new work with him - the registration link is here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Feb 14

Next week’s #MondayMajlis registration link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Feb 10

#MondayMajlis @exeter.ac.uk #Centre_for_Study_of_Islam starting in a few minutes - registration link eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

One can imagine using the text as a convenient classroom aid in the study of religion, exegesis and #Islam and for Shii believers who are primarily anglophone a useful reference work for which the translator Alexander Khaleeli ought to be congratulated

Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

It constitutes a simple and straightforward #Shii exegesis which is broadly #hadith based as one expects from his expertise and concise

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

The translation is nicely produced and retains the Quranic verses in Arabic as well as the citations of the verses in the main text in Red

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

The short exegesis is al-Asfa that has been published in English translation alfeker.net/library.php?...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

In the field of Quranic exegesis #tafsir he wrote two works a longer al-Safi a #hadith based work with an important set of preliminaries on hermeneutics archive.org/details/Tafs...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

He also wrote a number of works on the Sufi and Shii notion of the #perfect_human الإنسان الكامل such as Kalimat-e maknune philosophyar.net/marefat/31-o...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

In his autobiographies one finds an increasing sceptical approach to Sufism and a turn to #hadith later identifying him as #akhbari

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

He had a complicated relationship with #Sufism writing a correction of Ihya’ ‘ulum al-din of al-Ghazali (d. 1111) almontdr.blogspot.com/2015/07/blog...

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

He studied philosophy with Mulla Sadra and hadith with Sayyid Majid Bahrani (d. 1618) in Shiraz, with Shaykh Baha’ al-Din Al-‘Amili (d. 1030/1621) the shaykh al-Islam of #Isfahan and received an #ijaza in #Mecca from Muhammad (d. 1030/1621) grandson of Shahid II and author of Ma’alim al-usul

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

Muhammad b. Murtada known as Muhsin with the #takhallus #Fayd was born in Kashan in 1007/1598. His grandfather may have been a #Sufi master and may even have been a spiritual director of his father-in-law the famous thinker Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1045/1636)

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 18

Muhsin Fayd Kashani was one of the leading scholars of the #Safavid period in #hadith #philosophy #hikma #Quranic_exegesis and a translation of his Al-Asfa has just appeared with #ICAS_Press in London

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 6

In a globalising world I guess what we also need is input from other types of #English writing to enrich the process - and even consider how such advice works in other languages

Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 6

But now I think this piece by David Bentley Hart is more extensive, creative, and far more useful thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-...

How to Write English Prose

To my mind, each is in its own way a perfect, exquisitely faceted gem of English prose from an especially glorious literary epoch. Browne’s prose is a…

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 6

I remember first being told about #Orwell rules for writing at school and i always remenber the last one sites.duke.edu/scientificwr...

Orwell’s 6 Rules – Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Dec 2

m.thewire.in/article/reli...
Now even #Sufism isn’t acceptable

The Ajmer Dargah Sharif Is the Site for the Tussle Between Sufism and Hindutva

The fate of this Dargah Sharif matters even more than that of the Babri Masjid because the site epitomises the interactions between Hindus and Muslims at shared sacred sites.

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Nov 23

I remember conversations on supervenience, free will, whether mental states have causal efficacy, and of course consciousness (David Chalmers’ book was out) a real treat learning from a leading #analytic philosopher of the time

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Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social · Nov 23

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... RIP - my first meeting with him was actually in #Tehran back in 1999. One the highlights of that amazing first #MullaSadra confernce