ATHEISM in Medieval Islam. Freethinkers of the Caliphate. Al-Razi, Rawandi, Maarri, Khayyam, Nuwas

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2 ай бұрын

Based on The Cambridge History of Atheism, this review examines freethinkers in medieval Islam. During the 9th to 12th centuries, not only did science thrive, but religious skepticism also flourished in the Abbasid Caliphate, particularly in Baghdad. Prominent scholars and poets of that era openly criticized religious beliefs and practices.
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Bibliography / Recommended readings:
Stroumsa, S. 1999. Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al Rawandı, Abu Bakr al Razı, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought. Leiden: Brill.
The Cambridge History of Atheism edited by Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press (2021).
Stephens, Mitchell. 2014. Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World. St. Martin's Press
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AbuSulayman AbdulHamid. 2013. Apostates, Islam & Freedom of Faith. Change of Conviction VS Change of Allegiance. International Institute of Islamic Thought.
Cottee, Simon. 2015. The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam.
Eller Jack David. 2010. Atheism and Secularity in the Arab World. In Atheism and Secularity. Edited by Phil Zuckerman. Praeger Perspectives. Volume 2.
Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Princeton University Press, 2016)
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Hecht, Jennifer Michael (2003). Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. Harper San Francisco.
Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner. 2014. Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Al-Razi
Al-Rawandi
Abu Nuwas
Al-Maarri
Abu Isa al-Warraq
Omar Khayyam

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@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
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@ShonMardani
@ShonMardani Ай бұрын
Caliphate or Khaleefeh is a Farsi word " خرابها - kharabeha " which means Ruins, abandoned properties or properties of dead owners with no heir. Hashem (zionism) and Commonwealth are partnered up as the khaleefa of the world, secretly and deceptively. Caliphate organization needs to be a public, transparent and not for power or profit. Caliphate shall use the entire assets to help women, children and old people who do not have the ability or opportunity to compete for food and shelter. Secret governments have taken over the biggest public asset [which can easily replace the taxes] and have been stealing them, they even kill the owners with fake diseases, they also make sure that people remain renters [from them] so commonwealth and its partners can slave them for their work and their sex and their children. Iran is the only nation who has a separate charity organization to manage this assets "Bonyad Mostazafan" which is the largest charity organization in the world which has virtually eliminated income tax.
@vganad3739
@vganad3739 2 ай бұрын
Beliefs become trapped in our minds when we get nurtured with it as kids.
@victorien3704
@victorien3704 Ай бұрын
In every human society, despite how isolated they may be, there religion is found. It's in our DNA, and logically using our brains we can easily conclude there is a creator (see the proof of god by ibn sina)
@tehallanaz
@tehallanaz Ай бұрын
@@victorien3704religion is not in your dna stop and think for a few minutes
@communistshqiperia
@communistshqiperia Ай бұрын
@@victorien3704The necessary existence is just the necessary existence. There’s nothing proofing that the necessary existence is a god in the Abrahamic sense.
@CHRB-nn6qp
@CHRB-nn6qp Ай бұрын
Atheism is also a belief. I would say that a lot of atheists are actually more fanatical than theists. It's actually quite alarming when you notice it, and this is coming from an agnostic.
@TP_ERK
@TP_ERK Ай бұрын
@@CHRB-nn6qp As a Muslim in Turkiye I agree. atheists are only existing group that will tell you are acting in a tribal and extremists way. Just to do the same. I don't understand how someone can be a religious extremist while not having a religion.
@bossdeman
@bossdeman 2 ай бұрын
Its shocking how tolerant the world was a thousand years ago and can have polemic writings on Islam.. Now , no one would dare do that. Its fascinating. Thank you for the channel ...and good luck.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! There are many interesting videos on the channel.
@Omer698
@Omer698 2 ай бұрын
tolerance is not a good thing.
@aminr4281
@aminr4281 2 ай бұрын
@@Omer698tolerance to a degree of not bad! Tolerating everything is bad!
@Crazy88277
@Crazy88277 2 ай бұрын
Yeah So intolerance is a good thing! 👍 Bring back Sharia Law and Hadud punishments. 🤦‍♀️ 🙄
@aftabhossain264
@aftabhossain264 Ай бұрын
Yes it was the reality of Islam throughout the most of its existance. It was the religion of reason, thought, philosophy, tolerance and culture. You would be shocked to know how common homosexuality was Al-Andalus, Safavid Persia and even in Abbasid Caliphate for a time. And there was a form of homosexuality practiced in Ottoman empire too while Mughal empire and other Indian Muslim states were known for their respect towards transgender and non binary. And you look at Muslim world now. Alcohole was common and legal in all of this said societies including Timurid empire, Mamluk Sultanate and now people get punished for drinking in middle east. All of this societies were progressive in their day and age. Islam has truly been hijacked by radicalism and extremism with the rise of Salafism and the video talked about the atheist scholars of golden age, while for past 200 years we are witnessing dark ages of Islam
@Tennyson999
@Tennyson999 Ай бұрын
as someone with a sunni muslim background from malaysia, the part about how scholars at the time were even debating about sunnah is pretty crazy. growing up im told that to be a true muslim, you'd need to adhere strictly to the sunnah and quran and now you're telling me they were arguing about doing just that lmao. that explains a lot why the religion discourse is very limited. anything too complicated will be "go to a scholar" who you could definitely trust 100%
@Mahmoud-ku5eb
@Mahmoud-ku5eb Ай бұрын
What exactly r u yapping about
@Tennyson999
@Tennyson999 Ай бұрын
@@Mahmoud-ku5eb summary: islam is bullcrap
@akramazdin2771
@akramazdin2771 Ай бұрын
You are told to go to a scholar because they're the ones that studied the religion and the language their whole lives and ofc they don't answer you without quoting the Quran or the sunnah
@azzamziply3039
@azzamziply3039 Ай бұрын
Who ever told you that is not allowed in Islam, blind faith is not Islam and will never be Islam. You are told to go a Muslim scholar for islamic knowledge just as you should go to your English teacher for english or a baker for tips on baking
@Moses_VII
@Moses_VII Ай бұрын
Shia Islam is much more historically consistent, because we had 12 Imams who kept the Sunnah alive for 200 years after the Holy Prophet. Thaqalayn, the book of Allah and the progeny of Muhammad.
@hamobu
@hamobu Ай бұрын
The reason why many countries don't translate books into their local language is that many of them study in the language of the countries that once colonized them. So in Egypt you would study science in English, in algeria it would be French, etc.
@yellows5685
@yellows5685 Ай бұрын
Yea, the realization that I could not write in my native tounge was a surprisingly sad realization
@Yakkityyak248
@Yakkityyak248 26 күн бұрын
I've been shocked numerous times in my life at the various reactions of people towards atheism. Especially when you find they have very little knowledge of their own religion. It has brought me to the conclusion that the percentage of people who truly do believe, is minute. People are either born into it, or have converted for dreadful reasons.
@RabiaSammy
@RabiaSammy 25 күн бұрын
i only started to doubt when i began to read more into it and read the scriptures, up until then i was really devout with the goal of becoming more devout
@JustJess-xw5cr
@JustJess-xw5cr 25 күн бұрын
Blindly believing, consistently looking for answers from an imaginary parental/authority figure, but calling those who don't believe things blindly, and who look within themselves, for sensibility, to find truth, lost.
@uncleanunicorn4571
@uncleanunicorn4571 28 күн бұрын
Glad someone noticed polygamy is unfair to women. Even though it's not real, Imagine the toll it would take on a wife's mental health to imagine her husband with 72 magical side chicks.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 28 күн бұрын
hmm :)
@RabiaSammy
@RabiaSammy 25 күн бұрын
idk how a woman can be ok with this in the back of her mind
@ryancounts8131
@ryancounts8131 2 ай бұрын
Another fasinating video. It's very helpful that you share your reference material. Please, keep up the great work.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
thanks for the encouragement!
@treymckinney5077
@treymckinney5077 Ай бұрын
I’m a communications master’s student whose main focus is the interaction of religion and media and I’ve been watching your channel since the start. It’s awesome to see other up and coming scholars put videos out their related to their work keep it up man!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks for the encouragement!
@Milk_snatcher
@Milk_snatcher Ай бұрын
Absolutely loved this video! It's refreshing to see someone who takes the academic approach seriously, using multiple references to back up their points. Far too often, I come across non-academic KZfaqrs who use their platform to attack certain religions or ideologies without proper evidence. Your dedication to thorough research and balanced presentation is truly commendable. Keep up the great work!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thank you for encouraging me. Tomorrow I plan to publish VERY interesting video on history's first recorded atheist
@hafidhafsaadiqah5957
@hafidhafsaadiqah5957 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this presentation, and also for sharing your resources. Best to you always!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@reytop5064
@reytop5064 Ай бұрын
Amazingly well sourced video, on pretty underrated and largely untouchrd topic!
@arvinalz9404
@arvinalz9404 Ай бұрын
1:18 Good video. The only thing I realized though, is that Hafiz of Shiraz was a Persian language poet, and Khayyam (although he's written Arabic Treatises) also wrote his poetry in the Persian language.
@alanf8609
@alanf8609 2 ай бұрын
Wish KZfaq Channel's like these were the standard popular channels. Well researched, sources listed, addresses any potential bias…etc well put together! Keep up the good work (: And would love a video of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels take or view on Atheism and how that contributed to their socio-economic system of "Marxism/Communism/Socialism".
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Much appreciated! BTW I have a video on Marx, maybe not from the perspective you've mentioned though
@miovicdina7706
@miovicdina7706 22 күн бұрын
Apostate Alladin got me here. Subscribed. Also love the last video on atheism in Europe. Greetings from Belgrade Serbia
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 21 күн бұрын
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed both videos!
@Alexander_45
@Alexander_45 26 күн бұрын
Informative video. Subscribed. Sent by Apostate Aladin.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 26 күн бұрын
Welcome aboard, Alex! Please check out other videos.
@afrozairin8438
@afrozairin8438 Ай бұрын
Very nice video..I was born to Muslim parents but never believed in afterlife. Glad to watch this ❤
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks for sharing this
@eudfreij
@eudfreij Ай бұрын
La hawla wala quwwata illa billah
@EV-EV-EV
@EV-EV-EV Ай бұрын
Are you Bangladeshi?
@eudfreij
@eudfreij Ай бұрын
@@EV-EV-EV Why is it like that though?I’m noticing many of them becoming apostates..
@afrozairin8438
@afrozairin8438 Ай бұрын
@@EV-EV-EV yes. How did you know
@salmanisrar3772
@salmanisrar3772 15 күн бұрын
Sending infinite gratitude for this.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 14 күн бұрын
thank you!
@waderutherford9083
@waderutherford9083 Ай бұрын
You could also cover atheism in ancient India there was a school of thought equivalent to atheists.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
yes, I will
@user-ti2gy1ug7t
@user-ti2gy1ug7t Ай бұрын
How did we get here now, regarding the apostasy laws?
@owncraticpath
@owncraticpath Ай бұрын
Narrations besides the Quran. God knows best tbh. Because it's true that when the children of Isra3l worshiped the calf they were told to kill themselves, i'm not claiming the ruling is bad, i don't make moral judgements besides God, but the Quran nowhere mentions that ruling still applies today in normal circumstances. In war you could argue treason is punished by death since it risks the life of others during an active conflict since they may leave and give crucial information to the enemy... So yeah, let's not be hypocritical either. But i do believe the Quran allows apostasy, altough it will have consequences in the hereafter, since you get what you do for breaking your promise and also the evil deeds you probably will do after leaving.
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
No one changed the faith itself. So it eventually caught up to the Persians and Arabs. We see something similar in Europe where the enlightenment also brought a surge and religious extremism, since more people read the bible and took it seriously.
@owncraticpath
@owncraticpath Ай бұрын
@@MrCmon113 But the punishment of apostasy isn't in the Quran. It comes from sectarian sources. The Muatazzila if i'm not mistaken didn't use those narrations, they deemed them fabrications. So it's not that they didn't take their faith seriously, it's that they used the Quran instead of hearsay that was later collected to make laws as the supposed sayings of the Prophet... I hope this clarifies more, you can fact check what i said if i got something wrong.
@Ungehorsam
@Ungehorsam Ай бұрын
​@@MrCmon113 Yes true, everyone when mentions the enlightenments seems to forget about the whole religious league wars lmao
@bilkishchowdhury8318
@bilkishchowdhury8318 Ай бұрын
​@@owncraticpathBut in the Quran, it is said that Allah forgave them after they repented for worshipping the calf. Even the one who started the apostasy, Samiri, was told to get out of sight by Moses (As.). The word used in the Quran was "qatlun nafsi" here 'nafs' can also mean the soul, so it can have a more 'spiritual' meaning
@Dabordi
@Dabordi Ай бұрын
I watched half of this video and then took quite a well to finish the other half. There's a lot of depressing reflections on where the world ended up lurking under the surface of a video like this, since you know none of these seeds of doubt ended up as fruitful schools of thought. The world benefitting from their intellectual marketplace and openness at the time, but has long since become burdened by it (although not much, to be fair, the Arab world is mostly content to focus its ire inward). But yeah, some of those statistics are real sad. On the bright side, a lot of the quotes you offered are genuinely interesting - it's always fascinating to see how people so far removed from modern culture framed universal human sentiments. Some lovely phrasing in there.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your feedback, Dabor!
@galemartin9155
@galemartin9155 2 ай бұрын
Oh yes I'm sharing this😊
@wugythebug
@wugythebug Ай бұрын
An outstanding review. Thank you for your work.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Tomorrow I plan to publish VERY interesting video on history's first recorded atheist
@CuriousCyclist
@CuriousCyclist 2 ай бұрын
Just discovered your channel. Really good content. Keep it up. ❤
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard! Many interesting videos to come.
@rychei5393
@rychei5393 Ай бұрын
Respect. Thank you.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks for the comment!
@q7b663
@q7b663 Ай бұрын
I forgot nuwas' name specifically when someone was debating me on the extent of Islamic tolerance within sharia law and I wanted to refer my opponent to him. truly this is a flaring example.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
great
@user-ih8nm8lv1k
@user-ih8nm8lv1k Ай бұрын
There is not as much tolerance as you like to think
@q7b663
@q7b663 Ай бұрын
@@user-ih8nm8lv1k Yes, there is.
@freshflesh3292
@freshflesh3292 Ай бұрын
​@@user-ih8nm8lv1kyes because people who bad mouthed the prophet were still killed.
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
They did not follow Sharia. That's precisely why he could be critical of religion without being killed.
@Baummann1
@Baummann1 Ай бұрын
Excellent video. Please keep up your good work.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
Thanks, will do!
@danishkalwar5926
@danishkalwar5926 2 ай бұрын
Truly a masterpiece.keep producing such an engaging and insightful content in future.cheers and t c.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the encouragement! please share
@maliksiraj2353
@maliksiraj2353 Ай бұрын
One of the greatest arab intellectuals of the 20th century Abdel Rahman Badawi wrote an excellent book on the subject, called "From the History of Atheism in Islam", thought I don't believe it has been translated into English. I think you should look it up.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks for suggesting!
@believeinpeace
@believeinpeace 2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for supporting my work!
@peterbeater012
@peterbeater012 2 ай бұрын
Great work! the graphics in the video are beautiful, especially the architect 😍
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Glad you like it!
@albashir7140
@albashir7140 2 ай бұрын
That was brilliant ❤
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! There are many interesting videos on the channel.
@Henok-qn6nc
@Henok-qn6nc 26 күн бұрын
damn, such a quality content! subbed and liked :)
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 26 күн бұрын
thank you! Welcome aboard! Please check out other videos and share :)
@okdokie278
@okdokie278 Ай бұрын
Omg could we also please have a downloadable PDF link for your course curriculum for History of Atheism? The sources and books and study order in that would be extremely helpful for self-study!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
please reach out via email religionandhomo@gmail.com
@Aadil1717
@Aadil1717 2 ай бұрын
very good topic and you presented it nicely❤
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot 😊
@nananou1687
@nananou1687 Ай бұрын
Islam has only regressed and made things worse
@MuftiMasala
@MuftiMasala Ай бұрын
Really informative video ❤
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 29 күн бұрын
thank you! please share
@asifniazi7605
@asifniazi7605 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the research. Muslims t9day need to learn from previous scholars. Author of "Islam in the 21st Century"
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comment!
@zaidwasilbyjus4819
@zaidwasilbyjus4819 2 ай бұрын
learn what ?
@jjqq4116
@jjqq4116 Ай бұрын
we already do the atheist scholars aren't good scholars. anyone that can't free think into belief in God is worthless in this life and the next.
@arabicatheist8507
@arabicatheist8507 Ай бұрын
I have actually read the " Free thinkers of medieval Islam" very fascinating book I highly recommend it for anybody interested in this topic. And thanks for the other book recommendations, will add these to my list
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
you are welcome
@hotdogflavoureddrink
@hotdogflavoureddrink 25 күн бұрын
That was a very balanced take, very interesting!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 24 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Check out my other videos
@hotdogflavoureddrink
@hotdogflavoureddrink 24 күн бұрын
@@religiologEng Definitely did, and I am a believer!
@maleksamman1948
@maleksamman1948 2 ай бұрын
Hi @religiologEng thanks so much for the analysis! I tried to find a copy of "Freethinkers of Medieval Islam" that you shared @0:40, but it seems like each copy is quite expensive! How did you access these books without spending an arm and a leg? Thanks so much!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Hi, reach out via email religionandhomo@gmail.com
@arabicatheist8507
@arabicatheist8507 Ай бұрын
You can find this book online if you go to AnnasArchive. I found a copy there and read the book for free 😬
@syrajatt6141
@syrajatt6141 Ай бұрын
Well don't blame Salafism entirely because those T groups aren't made by Muslims and they were made by so called atheists and they are using this to promote their agenda and to control the region and using it against Muslims as well.
@AliTanoli-cq3js
@AliTanoli-cq3js Ай бұрын
Brilliant video, I hope that muslims come back in to the World of Science, Technology, Intellect, and Philosophy. Otherwise we will have 1.5 Billion people that are not contributing to advancement of Science
@sebozz2046
@sebozz2046 Ай бұрын
Interesting
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks!
@truthalonetriumphs1350
@truthalonetriumphs1350 25 күн бұрын
Great stuff🎉🎉🎉
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 24 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@iwoiwo1825
@iwoiwo1825 18 күн бұрын
Interestingly, Abdus Salam was an Ahmadijja, so by many he's not even considered by muslim. Even his tombstone was damaged because of that.
@HackerPULSE90
@HackerPULSE90 2 ай бұрын
Waki' bin Hudus narrated that his paternal uncle Abu Razin said: "I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, where was our Lord before He created His creation?' He said: He was above the clouds, below which was air, and above which was air and water. Then He created His Throne above the water.'" Sunan Ibn Majah 182
@mohammedayoubsamhoud3363
@mohammedayoubsamhoud3363 2 ай бұрын
Incorrect translation Beware. By the way, I am an Arab, the word air means nothing. And the word clouds does not exist. Strange that this is a fatal error in translation, did you modify it?
@HackerPULSE90
@HackerPULSE90 Ай бұрын
@@mohammedayoubsamhoud3363 you should cross check it and correct me: Grade: Hasan (Darussalam) Sunan Ibn Majah 182
@alialibay6639
@alialibay6639 2 ай бұрын
La connaissance est fondamentale pour permettre à l'esprit de grandir et comprendre toutes les nuances et les choses abstruses. Ces connaissances ouvrent les horizons pour apprécier toute la richesse que les hommes et les femmes ont crée depuis des millénaires. Merci!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Merci!
@user-iw7kd9yc2t
@user-iw7kd9yc2t 24 күн бұрын
This was true Eslom. That encouraged freethinking ❤❤❤
@HackerPULSE90
@HackerPULSE90 2 ай бұрын
Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "Before Allah created the creations, He wrote a Book (wherein He has written): My Mercy has preceded my Anger." and that (Book) is written with Him over the Throne." Sahih al-Bukhari 7553
@HackerPULSE90
@HackerPULSE90 2 ай бұрын
@@nur-azhar this is not for kafir though
@edgardavid1653
@edgardavid1653 2 ай бұрын
And how's this relevant to the video? Go somewhere else with your boring religious proselitsm.
@kopashamsu9913
@kopashamsu9913 2 ай бұрын
I think Abu Huraira was one of the biggest bullshitters of the Islamic history. He alone narrated more than 5000 hadeeths (which later produced more than 500,000 narrator chains). Many of his narrations are outright non-sensical, stupid and outlandish. He allegedly "compiled" them from multiple number of distant geographic locations, separated by hundreds of miles. Lived for 75 years, became a Muslim when he was like 40yo. Although it's doubted that he never met the prophet in person. Even the prophet's wife accused him of bullshitting. I think he was also mentally unstable, he had a strange infatuation with cats, the name "Abu Huraira" literally means "Cat dad".
@zaidwasilbyjus4819
@zaidwasilbyjus4819 2 ай бұрын
​@@nur-azharcan't keep your shit filled mouth shut , can you ?
@zaidwasilbyjus4819
@zaidwasilbyjus4819 2 ай бұрын
​@@kopashamsu9913you are so wrong , read a book instead of watching yt videos or googling. Loving cats is not a mental illness , I think the one with mental illness is you !
@azzamziply3039
@azzamziply3039 Ай бұрын
What do i learned after watching 30min of this? 1. Islamic empire did not suppress anti-islam debates, discussion, and challenges but embrace it and loved it. 2. You would be dead to question religion in Europe 3. Badhdad is a central or all religion to debate
@dimitrioskalfakis
@dimitrioskalfakis 2 ай бұрын
good concise overview, a much needed exposition. it is sad to think that almost all of these wise people even today would be either murdered or marginalized and not only in islamic countries.
@env0x
@env0x 2 ай бұрын
Dude they made a statue of him
@daraa151
@daraa151 2 ай бұрын
If I am not wrong many did lose their lives
@karimmezghiche9921
@karimmezghiche9921 2 ай бұрын
​@@daraa151 you are wrong
@morningstar3178
@morningstar3178 Ай бұрын
​@@env0x then vandalized it? Lol, I personally live in Baghdad and they cut off the statue's fingers except his index, you can probably get why that is. When it comes to theologian debates muslims were close minded and still are.
@env0x
@env0x Ай бұрын
@@morningstar3178 well obviously they are more extreme and radical in their views in the time when they vandalize the statue than in the time when they built it. wonder what changed?
@imaginationscene
@imaginationscene 2 ай бұрын
Reminder that the idea that Razi was completely against the idea of prophecy as in the islamic faith is a contested one. Its always interesting to see what sources people use when talking about him though. For anyone interested there are some different views which can be found in works such as those by Prof. Marwan Rashed and Prof. Peter Adamson the later has recently written a book focused on Razi published by Oxford University Press and another view of this type was presented in a paper by Hüseyin Güngör titled: 'Razian prophecy rationalized' in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for these sources. I'll need to check them out.
@imaginationscene
@imaginationscene 2 ай бұрын
@@religiologEng Your welcome, some topics and people seem to get a lot of attention. However most only rely on a few sources and dont recognize the range of views available by critical historians. Another suggestion for you is from the Abbasid History Podcast 'EP009 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on the life and works of poet-philosopher 'heretic' Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī' its pretty interesting.
@aq4356
@aq4356 2 ай бұрын
Abu Bakr ar Razi's "anti-Islamism" derives from an Ismaili source which are not very trustworthy in general, other sources state he was a Muslim. He is just famously pushed to be one because he was a famous physician and that helps people push that false idea that if you study science you cant be religious lol.
@syrajatt6141
@syrajatt6141 Ай бұрын
Well don'r know about Others but accusations on Al Razi has made by Ismails who were against him. It was proven by mant Historians. The accusations started after Abu Hatim was an Isma'ili missionary who debated Razi, but whether he has faithfully recorded the views of Razi is disputed.According to Abdul Latif al-'Abd, Islamic philosophy professor at Cairo University, Abu Hatim and his student, Ḥamīd al-dīn Karmānī (d. after 411AH/1020CE), were Isma'ili extremists who often misrepresented the views of Razi in their works.
@Moses_VII
@Moses_VII Ай бұрын
We Shia have always taked prophecy extremely seriously. The idea of an Imam coming back to rule with justice, and with Jesus returning alongside him, are essential to our faith even before we were sure about Muhammad al-Mahdi being that Imam, even when we didn't know we had to go through 11 Imams to reach that point. It took us 11 Imams getting martyred, because we didn't fulfill our obligations to cause justice to be established in the time of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or other Imams. Our failure is why our 12th Imam is in occultation, but no we are getting our act together, and the prophecies are coming true.
@MichaelHolshouser
@MichaelHolshouser Ай бұрын
The Stillness Before Time Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner Website: thestillnessbeforetime.com Blog: thestillnessbeforetime.blogspot.com PDF: thestillnessbeforetime.com/thestillnessbeforetime.pdf
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
I hope that I can one day become as unbelievably based as those guys.
@akramazdin2771
@akramazdin2771 Ай бұрын
A drunk man that literally raped another man and made poetry about doing it with young boys is based huh
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 2 ай бұрын
"God was existance itself"? That's Pantheism and thus mystical Atheism (which I share, mind you).
@MamaMama-sv3b
@MamaMama-sv3b 2 ай бұрын
God Allah is center of all creation whole universe is his creation
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 2 ай бұрын
@@MamaMama-sv3b - Nonsense: you're just the divine shard that denies its own divinity because of alienation from your own internal divinity. God is everything, from the smallest to the largest, EVERYTHING!
@MamaMama-sv3b
@MamaMama-sv3b 2 ай бұрын
Ok god is not everything we are his creation
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 2 ай бұрын
@@MamaMama-sv3b - No. Prove your theory or shut up. God is the ultimate cause of Reality and for all we know Reality is the ultimate cause of Reality and also Reality itself. Get real, Santa Claus is a bad theory.
@abdemouaouia8396
@abdemouaouia8396 Ай бұрын
​@@LuisAldamizok Hindu
@am1sane
@am1sane Ай бұрын
Christianity in the times of 30 years war or inquisition was much more similar ro modern day islam, ans christianity now is more like medival islam. Interesting
@zeuz3961
@zeuz3961 2 ай бұрын
Please check this book, Islam and the critical thinking by Dr. Muhammad Shahrour. It’s interesting to mention that Abu Nuwas repented at old age and returned to Islam before he died.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the suggestion, but how do we know it about Abu Nuwas? what are the sources?
@zeuz3961
@zeuz3961 2 ай бұрын
@@religiologEng So Abu Nuwas was a poet and there’s poetry he wrote asking Allah for forgiveness. Idk if you can read Arabic but I’ll post them here anyway. يا رب إن عظمت ذنوبي كثرة *** فلقد علمت بأن عفوك أعظم إن كَانَ لا يرجوك إِلا محسن *** فمن الذي يدعو ويرجو المجرم أدعوك رب كما أمرت تضرعا *** فإذا رددت يدي فمن ذا يرحم مالي إليك وسيلة إِلا الرجا *** وجميل عفوك ثم إني مسلم For what I found there are many resources mentioning his repentance including in the beginning and the end for Ibn Katheer.
@K2dawilla
@K2dawilla Ай бұрын
The point is he was tolerated until he decided to repent if he indeed did repent. In today's muslim world he wouldn't survive!
@zeuz3961
@zeuz3961 Ай бұрын
That is very much true. Unfortunately, in the Abbasi era, they were not tolerated either, and many of the Arab philosophers were banished or accused of heresy.
@mrmega54
@mrmega54 6 күн бұрын
Al Maa'arri actually wrote a book of peotry.. it was supposed to be a critical and competing work of poetry that rivaled the Quran, and when the critics said that it did not go viral, he said it's not his fault his book was not editted and perfected in mosques for more than 300 years. unfortunately most of his work was destroyed at the end of his life.
@Beeso
@Beeso 25 күн бұрын
@18:27 written like it was straight out of my younger heart. As my mind started to suspect that the “world” we live in that is dominated by blind, stiff dogma is actually insane.
@tanzimat2039
@tanzimat2039 2 ай бұрын
I am.not sure if Omar Khayyam is an Arabic poet though. He wrote in Farsi
@shadowborn1456
@shadowborn1456 2 ай бұрын
Yes he was persian muslim
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
you are right, he wasn't. In the video I call him a Persian poet.
@AndrewJohnson-hq3di
@AndrewJohnson-hq3di 2 ай бұрын
Muslim ?!?!,​@@shadowborn1456
@cinashirinvar4760
@cinashirinvar4760 Ай бұрын
راستش یه اشتباه شرم ‌‌اور و مقدماتی بود.
@danishkalwar5926
@danishkalwar5926 2 ай бұрын
Please go through the literature authored by a very renowned researcher and writer late gulam ahmad parwaiz affiliated with the institution known as tullo islam. It will help you to understand the approach of freethinkers or mutazili school of thought.regards
@MsKillingIt
@MsKillingIt 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video. It was really informative, especially in highlighting the contrast in the culture around freedom of ideas in medieval Islamic world and medieval Christian Europe. However, the one criticism I have is at 26:33 where you very briefly entertain the idea that Ghazali may have led to the downfall of science in the Islamic world. So far, the main source of this argument I have encountered is a video by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, where he claimed (without any sources) that Ghazali attributed mathematics to the work of the devil or something along those lines. Thus, singlehandedly leading to the collapse of critical thinking in the Islamic world. For anyone that has read Ghazali knows that this is the most absurd characterisation of the beliefs of Ghazali, and the proceeding conclusion he then draws is equally preposterous (there were several "conservative" scholars that came before him: most notably the renowned ibn Hanbal b. 780 - he had wide influence after his death, but Islamic science continued to progress.) While Ghazali certainly was religious, what some people misinterpret from a surface reading of his work is his attack on the blind adherence to Aristotelian metaphysics (especially by those with a shallow understanding of the topic). In fact, he actually says in his work "Deliverance From Error": "Great indeed is the crime against religion by anyone who supposes that Islam is to be championed by the denial of these mathematical sciences." This actually leads to a rather more interesting broader point, that I believe al-Khalili also makes (I read his book a while back so can't remember for sure): and that is, that science was able to progress, in part *because* of Islamic doctrine and belief in God. Ghazali (again) says in "Revival of the Religious Sciences": "Study the Science of the creatures (i.e. nature), and reflect upon the artistry of the Creator." A similar sentiment is echoed by another religious figure, ibn al-Qayyim, who is reported to have said by al-Fawaid in "A Collection of Wise Sayings": "The universe is a great book, and mankind must read it to know its Creator." This theme is supplemented by the fact that the golden age of Islam was sprawling with scholars who made many mathematical and scientific discoveries as a result of trying to make their religious duties more practicable. The most famous of these examples is al-Khawarizmi's pioneering of modern algebra. This arose from his attempts to clarify Islamic inheritance laws in an increasingly complex economic world. Advancements in astronomy and navigation came from the need to find reliable ways to locate the Kaabah in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, so Muslims could orient their direction of prayer correctly in a rapidly expanding empire. A more recent example is Abdus Salam, himself, who you referenced in your video. He was a deeply religious individual and was committed to proving the Qur'anic description of the unity of God. In summary, I just wanted to quickly debunk the misconceptions that have been flying around recently regarding Ghazali (which I know you didn't support, only referenced - but still, it is so outlandish that I don't even think it is worth mentioning), but more importantly wanted to stress that the achievements of science and mathematics owes a huge debt to those that were considered "religious" and had a deep and unwavering belief in God. The key was that there was not the same aggressive conflict between science and religion that existed in medieval Christian Europe. The zeitgeist was fundamentally different in the Islamic world. Once again, thanks again for the vid. Very good work.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
agree. The phrase about Al-Gazali is not mine but from the book of Jim Al-Khalili, that some people put blame on his conservatism, and then I refute it as too simplistic explanation.
@Expprods
@Expprods 2 ай бұрын
I agree Ghazali was completely misunderstood and his interpretation taken as against philosophy and science, which is total nonsense. Neil Tyson added his prejudice against Al Ghazali.
@abstractsophy
@abstractsophy Ай бұрын
1:40 if I remember correctly abu nuwas was into young boys in one of his poems he specifically said: “I like them just before puberty, before beard grows and mustache still young(gray mustache)” I’m translating just off of my memory, so correct me if I’m wrong.
@fragileomniscience7647
@fragileomniscience7647 Ай бұрын
Sanest sand maggot
@user-fn2xz8dt8f
@user-fn2xz8dt8f 29 күн бұрын
what is that scene with the blue background, it's beautiful.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 29 күн бұрын
which minute?
@user-fn2xz8dt8f
@user-fn2xz8dt8f 29 күн бұрын
@@religiologEng 0:14
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 29 күн бұрын
@@user-fn2xz8dt8f oh, I see. Yes, its amazing, but sorry I don't know from which movie its taken.
@lynxlecher9547
@lynxlecher9547 Ай бұрын
Scrolling through the comments and not one of them from a Muslim. Those "people" are hopeless. We're so luck they fight among themselves.
@tanveerrazakalani
@tanveerrazakalani 2 ай бұрын
Thank you, I'm glad and enjoyed the video. Those scholars were indeed challenging the way rulers of their time were attempting to use religion as a tool to legitimize their reign. Coming from the mystic sect, also known as the Batinis, I understand what they are trying to convey. For instance, what's the purpose of circumambulating the Kaaba and running between the two hills of Safa and Marwa? In mysticism, the spirit and soul possess multiple levels, and these rituals seem intended for those at a lower level of spirituality. The veil separating these levels can be quite formidable, and many who are born into that lower level may pass away without ever realizing there's a higher level beyond. However, that's okay if they full fill what they understood. I would like to study those reference you mentioned as its though provoking but i would like to read them with the context as well.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
thanks for sharing this!
@shoibericsson5007
@shoibericsson5007 2 ай бұрын
Is there even meaning of life? Not just life ... what's the purpose of non livings ... what's a stone good for ? All living being should gather and u alive themselves
@eudfreij
@eudfreij Ай бұрын
@@shoibericsson5007 La hawla wala quwwata illa billah
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
>Those scholars were indeed challenging the way rulers of their time were attempting to use religion as a tool to legitimize their reign. Huh? No. They were critical of the religion itself. They rejected the quran. They pointed out that God can't be all powerful and good. They weren't merely criticizing some rulers, but the faith.
@iwillalwayslovedogs8281
@iwillalwayslovedogs8281 25 күн бұрын
@@MrCmon113and rightly so. No one should believe anything blindly cos one person said it. Religion has made a mockery of God. They kill in the name of God without mercy,shouting God is merciful. Then where is the mercy?
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey 2 ай бұрын
I just discovered your channel…I was always looking for those Arabs who were defying those delusional Islamic ideologies. They were just great personalities with guts to criticize the scriptures! Great research and carry on with such enlightenment 🙏
@Cyroos
@Cyroos 2 ай бұрын
they were not arabs. they were persians.
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey 2 ай бұрын
@@Cyroos I thought some of them were Arabs?..also some people keep claiming algebra comes from Arabs.
@Cyroos
@Cyroos 2 ай бұрын
@@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey Razi khayam Ravandi were persians . there are others which are not as well known. But Zakaria Razi stands out as he was a great chemist( inventer of acid sulphuric ) an astrologist philosopher and he thought koran is badly written and the content was all mundane and nonsense.
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey
@WonderfulWorldview-pg3ey 2 ай бұрын
@@Cyroos Persian civilization was a great one before the invaders destroyed its culture, traditions and beliefs..unfortunately the common people are not aware of the destructive impact of that cult which is long lasting and sometimes irreversible. The digital sword will continue to spread information and knowledge with the hope that the coming generations realize that archaic doctrines and ideologies impede progress and development of humanity and society…✌️🙏
@fadyalqaisy
@fadyalqaisy 2 ай бұрын
@@WonderfulWorldview-pg3eyMaarri is Arab, Abu Nawas is Arab
@impressions9558
@impressions9558 Ай бұрын
In fact in certain circles (usually educated), atheism amongst muslims is totally normal since ages ago.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
in which countries?
@reytop5064
@reytop5064 Ай бұрын
Молодец, что перевел свое изначальное видео на Английский язык.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 29 күн бұрын
thanks!
@KhalgheAramesh
@KhalgheAramesh Ай бұрын
1:11 Omar Khayyam and Hafez Shirazi were Persian, and it's Persian literature they produced, NOT Arabic!
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
yes, I know
@unknown-pu4qw
@unknown-pu4qw 27 күн бұрын
If you knew, you should have fixed this insult to our heroes!​@@religiologEng
@skepsislamica
@skepsislamica 2 ай бұрын
Sarah Stroumsa doubts there were any real atheist in the Arabic cultural sphere during the middle ages: "...although the abstract notion of atheism existed in medieval Islam, no individual was associated with this notion." (Freethinkers of Medieval Islam, p.130) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epdxhK-lnrCziYE.htmlsi=DFCZjEHD9ej1ZjlN
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for clarifying this! I watched your interview couple weeks ago.
@Moses_VII
@Moses_VII Ай бұрын
According to Shia sources, a real atheist did exist, but an Imam brought him back to Islam.
@mohamedgoldstein5565
@mohamedgoldstein5565 Ай бұрын
Astronomy or astrology?
@andiakram1829
@andiakram1829 Ай бұрын
None of al Ruwandi's work survived, so the only description we got about what he think comes from his enemies, understandably it will bias their story about him. Did you intentionally hide this to make your narrative more believeable?
@j.mtherandomguy8701
@j.mtherandomguy8701 24 күн бұрын
Why did you promote a book by Jim Al Khalili, a Popular historian whose works greatly contradict the works of actual historians of that time period?
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 24 күн бұрын
for example? which specific claims are inaccurate?
@thegrunbeld6876
@thegrunbeld6876 Ай бұрын
damn, al rawandi and al razi are beasts!
@sahilhossian8212
@sahilhossian8212 Ай бұрын
Lore of ATHEISM in Medieval Islam. Freethinkers of the Caliphate. Al-Razi, Rawandi, Maarri, Khayyam, Nuwas momentum 100
@asadullahkhan1301
@asadullahkhan1301 2 ай бұрын
Praises of wine and seemingly blasphemous content in the poetic traditions are not an evidence of someone's beliefs. The Arabic poetic tradition that influenced to Persian and then Urdu poetry is full of wine and seemingly sinful/ blasphemous content. Being someone familiar with Urdu poetry I know poets who praised wine but never drink it (for religious reasons). In this tradition the rule is: "if you have got a good one, say it!" No ones judges anyone's beliefs based on his/ her poetry.
@owncraticpath
@owncraticpath Ай бұрын
I mean you can have freethinking without atheism. And today atheism means antitheism, not agnostic. People who hold beliefs without evidence as dogmas. I recommend you investigate about the Muatazzila, that is reasoning and the importance they gave to using the intellect, which is in part, by God's permission what made them have a civilization so advanced as Baghdad. Today the main sect isn't really on that vibe, and they follow narrations besides the Quran, which makes them really be misguided in many senses, and have superstitions nowhere found in the Quran which is what claims to be revelation from God and contains logical evidences for that claim. Peace
@Angelmou
@Angelmou Ай бұрын
"People who hold beliefs without evidence as dogmas." ... "superstitions nowhere found in the Quran which is what claims to be revelation from God " Can you show the evidence for thoughtorgan lacking thinkers? Or that there could even be any connection between this idea and the idea a text like the Qur'an could have had something to do with it?
@owncraticpath
@owncraticpath Ай бұрын
@@Angelmou Peace The Quran literally tells people to use reason and reflect, constantly. What i meant with superstitions nowhere found in the Quran is refering to the collections of hearsay people tell us is "a second revelation besides the Quran", basically the Talmud J3ws have but in arabic terms. Inside of it is where you find the blatant wrong stuff, nowhere in the Quran do you find something which is wrong, i've seen attempts but they usually push their interpretation as the only acceptable one, even when the verse doesn't give off what they want to pretend it does. But with those other sources, you can indeed find weird stuff. You can find also good, but it's a mix. With dogmas i meant atheists or antitheists holding the dogma that there is no God, when they have no way to prove that idea, and their own studies prove belief in a higher power is something inside of us, something natural as believing in cause and effect. We don't need to prove cause and effect, it's an axiom. And God is basically "the first cause", so in an essential level we don't need to prove we come from something else that comes from nothing else while being something and eternal. Because it is logical. So yes, atheists have dogmas also, but they don't have evidences for them, their only hopes is to attack every belief that holds any idea of a creator or original being, in hopes of their assumptions to seem logical for people who have nothing to hold into but need to feel safe in the head to not go crazy. That's my opinion, you might disagree but i explain it in more detail so that you know where i come from. My parent's are kinda believers, but not in any sect, never pushed it on me, i was an agnostic for a long time, and searched a lot for truth and for morality especially, since i wanted to hold good moral values. Ended up falling into the opposite, and fell into egoism after research, which in a way is a deep atheistic belief, altough i guess some believers of a version of God outside of scripture might hold it. And yeah, it got dark, i would have done horrible stuff, thank God i didn't have the medium, and people think i'm good, i want to think i am but without God or a clear book with evidence i just couldn't justify having morals, idk if this makes sense to you, but when we say atheism cannot justify morality, we mean it, you don't believe it's the case because you haven't done the work, but i'm sure you would fall into the same if you de-indoctrinate yourself, then you would realize you can't make up morality on your own, and would end up as i ended up then. This is why i warn people against atheism, it has no evidence to it and it makes people do bad things if you are coherent... why? because bad things are easier to do and in the short term give off more pleasure to some people... and theologically God also sends d3mons, humans or from the unseen to inspire you with evil, be it on KZfaq, TV or in movies, they inspire you with bad ideas you can choose to do or not, to excercise your design, since you are a moral being unlike others. Then, i found the Quran and i won't like, i didn't believe in it because of the mathematical codes in it, or because of the historical accuracy, or prophecy or the miracles of it's speech, i just believed in it because it made sense and the morality in it was literally my old good morals i lacked at the time. It was as if i was reading my own soul in a text, idk how to explain it. Not only that, all what i had learned with experience, was already written in the book as guideance... I just recommend you read the translation of Sam Gerrans or any translation you like on your own, honestly my arguments suck compared to what the book says. Of course if you reason, if you read it superficially you will lose a ton of information. It's a book for deep thinkers, which again leads me to point out that it brought up a civilization as Baghdad, good books do that to civilizations. reader.quranite.com/verses/chapters?chapter=96 Peace
@Angelmou
@Angelmou Ай бұрын
@@owncraticpath "Inside of it is where you find the blatant wrong stuff, nowhere in the Quran do you find something which is wrong," Is more or less a denial due to false imprinted emotions (so called pink goggles that you wish that the nicest and most good feeling can arrive aka seeking for untruthness that gives you fake meaning in your life and inner core personality). The Qur'an stated for example that the sun sets in a muddy spring, that the sun revolves the earth, that stars would be tiny rocket thrown at devils or fall from the sky at a supposed judgement day as they would not be 1 mio. times the size of planet Earth etc. or that that the activity _to create_ would be older than it actually is in history. Those are just mundane examples of false statements in the human texts called the Qur'an, where you actively have to work to press them in meaning so that the appearence of "it is fine" is artificially constructed around. "i've seen attempts but they usually push their interpretation as the only acceptable one," A not acceptable way to even approach any text is the personal wish that the text shall give you meaning in your life - this is never in any shape or form an acceptable interpretation way as it just reveals your inner bias and worships it then. This means a texts turn into a mirror so that you worship what you like, distaste and so on. It is then due to human emotions always the wish for Untruthness disguised as "sense in life" seeking. The same goes for the "this text shall give me depression" way of approach no one but goth people may do. "With dogmas i meant atheists or antitheists holding the dogma that there is no God, when they have no way to prove that idea, and their own studies prove belief in a higher power is something inside of us, something natural as believing in cause and effect." Deities are human concepts of thoughtorganlacking thinkers without ear organs to register air vibrations where they still shall hear like prayers or eye organs unable to register light waves but still able to see with impossible superpowers like endless life (immortality) or invisibility etc. It is basically the wish that square circles or married bachelors shall be real to deny self-contradictions and the real limitations of reality by irreal traits. This is why the denial of human mortality for the idea of an everlasting life (incl. a paradise) arrives from as the wish that some agency shall grant that wish. That means Allah shall be seen as the limit breaker of the finite and countable number of days a human person is able to exist. Allah shall be capable to do everything for the mere reason that a human hates limits and that for that hatred limits shall be gone - it is more of a desperate cry that they are so horrific emotionally that the limits like the finite number of days of a life shall be denied alone by the will to denial. While there is no limitation breaker at all. Here: "Higher power" humans are social tribal animals orienting on parents as forerunners and agents to nurture them. This is the reason why humans are selected to think in agency instead of cold mindless mechanism. So do people assume a creator solely, because they substantivize the activity called _to create_ and assume first comes the parent like a father figure that performs the to create activity. While in reality agency and the subject comes _always_ after the mechanism. So humans have inside us the mistaken imprint from raising up from toddler age to see parents and guidance first instead of the arrival of the technical mechanical structures that allowed agency to fill out roles where the roles and subjects are always younger in time and come AFTER the mindless establishment. "We don't need to prove cause and effect, it's an axiom." Correct. So is the activity _to create_ caused by the evolution of neuronal complexity aka thinking organs. This is why no one made the stars by the acitivity _to create_ - the stars formed by the clumping of atoms by gravity forces to ignite the plasma reaction at a specific point of mass. "And God is basically "the first cause", so in an essential level we don't need to prove we come from something else that comes from nothing else while being something and eternal." The first cause would just be called first cause not "God", as the first cause has neither a mind (no agency as complicated thought processes to have 1 chain of thought to the next relies already on proceeding mechanical thought architecture) nor as a relation point for humans. "Because it is logical." It is not logical to give concepts false names so that people can use the human nature to falsely attribute parenthood imprintings (feelings) to substanitivzed mindless mechanism. Or to think you can have then a relationship to a person that is simply not there. "So yes, atheists have dogmas also, but they don't have evidences for them," Not to be convinced that there are thoughtorgan lacking thinkers is not a dogma. It is just not falling into the trap to see everywhere surrogate parents or potential family members and be aware of the own limitations. "their only hopes is to attack every belief that holds any idea of a creator or original being," I do not see that people do that. I just see that theists react thin skinned by pointing out self-contradictions. Like when you claim an uncaused cause then the actual uncausedness is the main answer: This comes from those possible reality bases here: A.) Existence just has a countable number of timeframes/hours which were not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer) B.) Existence goes endlessly into a never ending past which as chain was not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer) C.) Existence was made from an already existing creator, which was not caused as "Alpha&Omega" - as this God was not made it was uncaused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer upfront the deity). D.) Existence was made from an already existing creator, which was made by a META-maker, which was made by another Meta-Meta-Maker or a combination of existence forming makers which where made in an endless chain of Deities/Creators or existences prior while the chain of deities and existences itself was not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer) E.) Existence here is a simulation (Like the matrix) with a countable number of hours of a more primary existence (serverworld) which has itself only a countable number of hours which was not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer). F.) Existence is a time circle/time travelerer itself and at the end of time it beams itself into the past to be its own origin, which is a circle that was not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer). G.) Existence is a combination of several of the given A-F answers. So could our existence be a simulation that was made by a Maker outside of the simulation, while the maker itself was only a simulation of a bigger meta-universalserver, which was made by a superMaker which lived in the first premordial basic world (the actual "existence") which has only a countable number of timeframes/actions to be performed so that the whole thing is not caused (UNCAUSEDNESS is the final answer) or that the first existence there is like in F.) a time traveler causing itself in the meta existence all the time anew where simulations appear like growing branches from a tree in each time circle, while this re-newal-circle was itself never caused. (UNCAUSEDNESS is yet the final answer) You are never having there any agency to be truly the first cause as the cause for a deity in that idea would not be caused aka uncausedness - it is just that all given answers always result in Uncausedness to be the answer. It does not matter if you are theist or atheist in these topics. Which of those possible answers to be the correct one is irrelevant for the same answer. " in hopes of their assumptions to seem logical for people who have nothing to hold into but need to feel safe in the head to not go crazy." There is no assumption when you just not share the idea that you can make up stuff that is against how history works. LOL "That's my opinion, you might disagree but i explain it in more detail so that you know where i come from." I'm going to answer the rest later. As you have not a correct understanding how ethics work or a metamoral framework mechanically.
@owncraticpath
@owncraticpath Ай бұрын
@@Angelmou All what you wrote got invalidatet when you said that "the Quran stated that the sun sets on a muddy spring" If you can't understand what the Quran said there, how can you understand anything. I would bet you didn't even read the context of the story and verse. You just heard it by a deceptive Christian preacher and since you have monotheism and want to worship you mangod then you believe whatever Lord Christian Clow tells you, I know most of them already, they are liars, they are hypocrites, they aren't even true Christians, they are only getting money out of fools like you who believe all they say without fact checking. If you had fact checked you would know nowhere in the Quran does it mention that the sun literally sets always on a moody spring, all the verse talks about is where the sun set from the perspective of Dhul Qarnain, basically it's a hit that he was near a sea. Probably the dead sea? Or was it the black sea, i can't remember. You need to be a FOOL to misunderstand that verse, or not having read the context. One of the two. When you read the Quran on your own, then we can talk. I do read the Bible on my own from time to time of course, since i'm focusing on my source i know is not corrupted...
@RA10802
@RA10802 Ай бұрын
⁠​⁠@@owncraticpath as an agnostic myself. Is it possible that the Quran got its morality and understanding of the world, from its surrounding culture and to keep order and peace in its community as evident by child marriages and forgive me if I'm wrong production of sperm from the tailbone.
@mrnomad1737
@mrnomad1737 2 ай бұрын
Misleading title. These scholars were not aithist but rationalist. They differ from orthodoxy in certain aspects based on their rationalist principles. The fact they wrote exegesis of relegious text using such tool illustrates their independent take.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
agree, therefore I explain in the video that none of them is real atheist is the sense we use today
@InfiniteDeckhand
@InfiniteDeckhand Ай бұрын
Writing exegesis on religious text is not contradictory to being an atheist, especially back then where that sort of thing was a very popular practice among scholars. Besides, it's pretty disingenuous of you to simply assert that they were not atheist (you didn't even spell that word correctly, lol), when some of these scholars had verifiably critical stances on religion in general as well as some others where it's at least implied that they might have been atheists.
@jona7200
@jona7200 Ай бұрын
Thank you for bringing to light how close minded and arrogant these individuals were
@mekkagifari6052
@mekkagifari6052 Ай бұрын
you said some thing about abu nuwas, i just want to tell you one of hist poet : "my god, i am inappropriate to live in paradise, and i am not strong to live in hell, so bring me back to you and forgive all my sins, indeed, only you who forgive all great sins" is this a poetry that creat by an atheist? there is atheist long before islam, one surah in the quran that destroy atheist claim is surah at-tur 35 : أَمْ خُلِقُوا۟ مِنْ غَيْرِ شَىْءٍ أَمْ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰلِقُونَ Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?
@ko-xu1lr
@ko-xu1lr 17 күн бұрын
He said that Abu Al-Nawas was not an atheist but rather a deist...that is he believed in the existence of a God but he denied all rituals of worship in the various organized religions especially Islam
@mekkagifari6052
@mekkagifari6052 17 күн бұрын
​@@ko-xu1lryou dnt even know what is deism but you make your own definition, lol in islam, there is school of thought like deism, that was mu'tazilah abu nuwas was a hedonist in his young age and a sufi in his old age in islam, someone who repent like someone who never doing sins
@Embassy_of_Jupiter
@Embassy_of_Jupiter 28 күн бұрын
Modern scholars call it Uhhmackchschuallyism
@iftakharhasan6770
@iftakharhasan6770 2 ай бұрын
Atheism equals to freethinking? It is not free thought if you already imposed your own view on what a freethinker should think about, is it?
@K2dawilla
@K2dawilla Ай бұрын
No, it is definitiely is not. However, islam and they way it is implemented in most cases is guilty of the same. So, I guess if you are in a muslim society and capable of going against it without serious repercussions like death, then we can safely argue that people are free to think in that society, don't you think?
@Sagginballs
@Sagginballs Ай бұрын
Average atheists thinking they are superior moment
@impressions9558
@impressions9558 Ай бұрын
Yes but atheism does not have a book. It's only one thing: not enough evidence to prove God and even less the Abrahamic religions. For the rest, you can be a pacifist, violent, right wing, communist (although extreme political viewsxand religion do have irrational dogma and tribalism as a common thing). I dare say that in the safest countries are usually quite atheist like Finland and prisons have very fiew atheists since an atheist gives this life a bigger importance since death might probably just be the end. That does not mean that certain old beliefs do not have wisdom but also a lot of BS.
@ayadnadum1739
@ayadnadum1739 Ай бұрын
@@K2dawillaBut it just means that it’s not the fault of Islam but it’s the fault of people.
@rtmusicvideos431
@rtmusicvideos431 Ай бұрын
As a Jewish refugee from a country that once imposed Islam and then Atheism, I can tell you that any ideology can suppress free-thinking. It’s sad that today Islamic countries suppress atheism, and atheist countries (such as China) suppress religion.
@bosbanon3452
@bosbanon3452 2 ай бұрын
About the decline of science in the Muslim World, you're right that Muslim still have many intelectual center in the Persia, North Africa, Egypt, and Central Asia( why they don't have learning center in India and Anatolia?), 😅but i think you have forget that Central Asia and Persia was attacked first by the Mongol before they're sacking Baghdad 😢
@geto4790
@geto4790 Ай бұрын
Yes but what you don't say is that in USA Harvard and those universities in the west there are a multitude of different ethnics and beliefs of people, it's not a monolitic group of people and the USA recruits and attracts all the intelligent people in the world for their country and give them good conditions for living in USA. That is why you don't see the others countries developing their country. How can they develop and make more contributions if their high iq people leave their country and give contributions for foreigners like western people ? It's a real phenomenon in social study called " the escape of the brains".
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thank you for mentioning that. Non-American universities and countries also publish many research articles and translate many books and scientific articles. So, it so only about " the escape of the brains" to the US.
@geto4790
@geto4790 Ай бұрын
@@religiologEng yeah I said for western people too. Like in europe countries its the same thing but you talked about USA. The wester countries are land of immigration too. So yeah the escape of the brains is a real phenomena. if it continues like that the third world countries will never develop or have more opportunities to publish scientific articles. It's an opinion maybe I am wrong.
@berdigylychrejepbayev7503
@berdigylychrejepbayev7503 19 күн бұрын
guys lets not comment without really knowing what they where criticizing. my first reaction to this video is that contains some "unexplained facts" that will depict mutazilites as skeptics (if unexplained). they say quran was created but they dont mean this book was made up by some arabs during 600s. they said that to indicate quran isnt eternal (according to them only god is immortal/eternal without beginning etc) and quran just like universe angels paradise etc is created (comes later, has beginning) so you should know that no muslim denied quran as a word of god but they debated over nature of it. but their logic was short-lived and nothing more so they lost higher ground to other schools of thought. moreover, many those "great" minds clearly sucked in philosophy/theology since they criticized shit that answered in sunnah and quran or just by simple thinking. such as burden in quran God said that no man had a given burden that he couldnt bear so quran is filled with various examples of it. the worst thing can happen to man were happened to people who came before them. it is like saying in perfect capitalist system you couldnt accomplish a shit. we have examples of who achieved it one way or another. or the meanings of hajj pilgrimage. some rituals have metaphorical reason. some has spiritual. you dont need a big brain to say that. or the necessity of some rituals: guys let me break down it for y'all. daily prayer = you get up early, do some physical exercise good for your health. you wash yourself before (mostly) every prayer good for your overall health (especially when the medicine isnt developed as of today) more washing means less bacteria means strong and good health. also daily prayer force you to create a daily routine which is essential to be successful in life. so even these seemed meaningless to some great medieval minds we can see their positive impact now. their "arguments" are nothing more than empty discussion and rhetoric you would encounter in pubs and there is no analytical thinking in that.
@kyoungd
@kyoungd 19 күн бұрын
Thanks for the clarifications on the Mutazilites. It is common for diversity to rise in early period before certain practices and dogma becomes the standard.
@ruzhdigurra9979
@ruzhdigurra9979 2 ай бұрын
Brother- You think your lectures in english language will make any impact?! Please do something else?
@orziqulovburhoniddin8564
@orziqulovburhoniddin8564 Ай бұрын
Can I ask why atheists are called freethinkers? Doesn't it depend on a person's knowledge and wisdom
@kyoungd
@kyoungd 24 күн бұрын
Ask this question: "What evidence would be enough for you to accept that your religion is false?" We are called free thinkers because we can consider all possibilities without letting emotions influence us. I agree that a religious person can possess tremendous knowledge and wisdom. However, free thinking involves a different approach.
@GuilhermeSantos-uq9mc
@GuilhermeSantos-uq9mc Ай бұрын
Rawandi is side by side with Kendrick Lamar as one of the biggest haters, omg
@imane-yaan6514
@imane-yaan6514 15 күн бұрын
Subscribed! 👍 apostate alladin
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 15 күн бұрын
welcome a board!
@h_h4790
@h_h4790 Ай бұрын
It wasn't
@hemaatef556
@hemaatef556 Ай бұрын
The info about abu nuwas is kinda Misleading yes he wasnt the most religious guy but in hes last days he did return to islam and even wrote a Poetry asking for forgiveness from allah also saying al razi was atheist is very stupid and Misleading and there is no real prove that he was atheist the only people who said he was a atheist all of them are atheist to prove that atheism is what scientist choose
@K2dawilla
@K2dawilla Ай бұрын
What about the people who said he was a muslim? Are there any non-muslims in that set? Btw it shouldn't matter anyway. Who is Al Razi compared to the might of God? This shouldn't bother any muslim in the slightest. It shouldn't matter if the prophet himself was atheist.
@hemaatef556
@hemaatef556 Ай бұрын
@@K2dawilla read my comment bro al razi was a muslim and there is no prove that he wasnt the people who said he was atheist was atheist and they said that to make people believe that atheism is wat scientist choose and it dosent matter if he was atheist or not but its very wrong to lay about the guy just to proof ur point or make a video about it
@K2dawilla
@K2dawilla Ай бұрын
@@hemaatef556 You got my drift, though, didn't you?
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
What's your source for that? All I can find quickly is that we was increasingly under pressure for his gay and anti-religious writings and that he may even have been killed for making fun of some aristocratic family.
@hemaatef556
@hemaatef556 Ай бұрын
@@K2dawilla i did but u didnt get mine
@EarnestApostate
@EarnestApostate 2 ай бұрын
Given the etymology and the long feud, English becoming the Lingua Franka is kind of hilarious to me.
@RichWoods23
@RichWoods23 2 ай бұрын
'Lingua franca' literally translates to 'language of the Franks', at a time when Frank was a broad term used in the eastern Mediterranean for any Western European (and the Franks themselves were originally Germanic). The medieval Eastern Mediterranean pidgin language that was named Lingua Franca was based primarily on Italian; Maghrebi Arabic had more of an influence upon it than did French. The long feud you are referring to has no relevance here.
@kaloarepo288
@kaloarepo288 2 ай бұрын
@@RichWoods23 "Franca" could also possibly in this context mean "free" - so the free language that everyone uses. But you are right western Europeans whether Italian, French, German, Spanish or English were usually referred to as "Franks" both by the Byzantines, or the Arabs or indeed even much further east in Thailand for example where westerners are referred to as "ferenghi" a word derived from "Frank." This can be compared how Greeks in ancient times even in India were called "Javana" from the Ionian coastal region which is now the coastal area of Turkey -the Greeks that eastern peoples first came in contact with.
@almami1599
@almami1599 Ай бұрын
Al Maarri was one of the greatest Arab poets and thinkers, i memorize a poem in which he is talking a fetus out of being born, and yeah he sounds like a real atheist
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
thanks for sharing!
@johngurvan8279
@johngurvan8279 Ай бұрын
How many false facts in your book
@ariaarian7514
@ariaarian7514 Ай бұрын
Navaz, khayyam, razi are all Iranian poets not Arabs!
@SThrillz
@SThrillz 2 ай бұрын
Part of the problem is calling it "The golden age of Islam" and attributing the knowledge accumulation to Islam because then people look at it and say if it's because of Islam then the more "Islam" we become the more knowledge from God we can acquire disregarding the the fact that it's because of the opposite. Guess what happens when you are a Muslim who's not dogmatic but just religious enough to memorising the entire Quran, that means you have people with extremely great retentive memory. This is not of the problem I have with religion it tends to dehumanize the entire process.
@Wartensteiin
@Wartensteiin Ай бұрын
No; The Golden age of Islam describes the golden age of Islamic civilization. I understand where you're coming from, but I've not seen much people who reached such conclusions.
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 Ай бұрын
Should be called the Golden Age of a Lack of Islam.
@Wartensteiin
@Wartensteiin Ай бұрын
@@MrCmon113 Ahistorical statement
@user-ke6uv5rs1p
@user-ke6uv5rs1p 2 ай бұрын
Atheist is an atheist, it doesn’t matter what background they came from… One of Mohammed’s uncles Abu Jahil was a pagan.
@miguelatkinson
@miguelatkinson 2 ай бұрын
There is a difference between a atheist and a pagan
@MrMorid
@MrMorid 2 ай бұрын
Islam flourish by Persians, and almost all scientists , poets, writers were Persians not Arabs unfurtunately mistakenly they call them Arabs because of their names
@fadyalqaisy
@fadyalqaisy 2 ай бұрын
Many with supposedly Persian last named like Al Khawarizmi are actually Arab settlers
@laylaali5977
@laylaali5977 2 ай бұрын
Not all of them
@user-yp7ke4et7o
@user-yp7ke4et7o Ай бұрын
Nationalism is cancer
@Motivation-Dose476
@Motivation-Dose476 Ай бұрын
Most were Arab and some were Mawali(slave)
@syrajatt6141
@syrajatt6141 Ай бұрын
Well don'r know about Others but accusations on Al Razi has made by Ismails who were against him. It was proven by mant Historians. The accusations started after Abu Hatim was an Isma'ili missionary who debated Razi, but whether he has faithfully recorded the views of Razi is disputed.According to Abdul Latif al-'Abd, Islamic philosophy professor at Cairo University, Abu Hatim and his student, Ḥamīd al-dīn Karmānī (d. after 411AH/1020CE), were Isma'ili extremists who often misrepresented the views of Razi in their works. Please educate yourself before making a video.
@religiologEng
@religiologEng Ай бұрын
All this is taken into consideration by Sarah Stroumsa. Are you trying to say he was a pious muslim?
@syrajatt6141
@syrajatt6141 Ай бұрын
@@religiologEng he may not be pious Muslim but not apostate either because whether his writings or any claims have any sort of evidence to prove he was atheist.
@the_old_farm
@the_old_farm 2 ай бұрын
i really respect what u doing it shows that the the islamic civilization embraced freedom of thought and speech better than pervious religious societies and even better than todays liberal so called free society however id like u to to be more fair to address the counter arguments to this claims from Islamic scholars i really want to see u do fool justice to this topic
@religiologEng
@religiologEng 2 ай бұрын
thank you, agreed, next time will take it into consideration. Isn't Jim Al-Khalili's and Salem (Noble Prize Laureate) fair? yes, they aren't scholars of Islam, yet their opinion is important to consider too.
@the_old_farm
@the_old_farm 2 ай бұрын
@@religiologEng well u talking about a medieval area of Islam so u should use some one like ibn Khaldun and Alghazali there is ibn Sina and al kindi however ibn Khaldun would be a good start specially that he argument is the strongest one for the existence of god u can really examine the contingency argument it will be a great content
@Sticklemako
@Sticklemako Ай бұрын
Islam didn't embrace skepticism. It was certain cultures historically that allowed for it.
@the_old_farm
@the_old_farm Ай бұрын
@@Sticklemako well that is just incorrect because even in the Quran in multiple places encourages questioning everything about god for example not only that but in sirrah of the prophet means the biography people from other faiths used to challenge the prophets claims if skepticism is suppressed in an Islamic it is cultures who did forbid it not the other way around the arabs were pretty resilient and hard to convince at the time pretty sure any form of jailing thoughts wouldn't help islam to Flourish
@Sticklemako
@Sticklemako Ай бұрын
@@the_old_farm Show ONE place it encourages questioning Muhammed?
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