Peter Adamson
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first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
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It was a hard part of the book to write, but I hope it's I hope it comes through clearly.
Right, okay.
So I guess with both of them they they sort of take us to more political issues, which we haven't really touched on very much yet, even though some many of the thinkers that I've uh mentioned, like Atfar Avi, for example, do discuss political philosophy.
But they're both um interesting because they give us a chance to see the viewpoint of Islamic intellectuals during the time of colonialism.
So Mohammed Abdul is um from Egypt or was from Egypt.
He was born in eighteen forty nine.
Um and uh there's so we're still here in the last half century or so of the Ottoman Empire during his life.
And um he's influenced very strongly by a teacher who then becomes his colleague named Jamal Adin Al-Efgani, who's uh Persian, um, whom he meets in 1869.
The two of them later on work in Paris, they publish uh journals and periodicals together.
And uh one thing that's really interesting, I think, about Abdu is that although he's often thought of as a kind
of um central figure of
uh you trying to explain how Islam could modernize and somehow cope with the situation of colonialism.
And although that's all true, he's off he's also engaged with text from the
The tradition that we've just been discussing.
Um, so for example, he wrote a gloss on a commentary written by a Dawani on a theologian named Aliji.
So so we haven't mentioned them, but they're two of these um very central figures in this post-Avicennan, Avicenizing Kalam tradition, right?
And so the fact that he's doing that around the turn of the 20th century.
I think it is really amazing and it shows the kind of continuity of the tradition.
Another example is that he um he taught an ethical work by a philosopher named Miskawe, who was a contemporary of Avicennus.
So imagine, you know, someone teaching an ethical treatise from the 11th century, as if this is still cutting edge ethics.
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