What is Shia Islam? - Twelverism

The great Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi was taught by a woman. In Part 2 of our series on Sufi women in history, we explore the female saints, teachers, and muses who shaped the thought of Islam's greatest mystical philosopher.Find me and my music here: https://linktr.ee/filipholmSupport ...  Show more

John Scotus Eriugena was one of the most radical thinkers of the early Middle Ages — a philosopher who fused eastern and western Christian theology with Neoplatonism to create a vision of God, nature, and creation centuries that is breathtaking and unique. In this episode, we exp ...  Show more

In this episode we discuss the formation of Shia orthodoxy. Picking up from our earlier episode on early Shi’ism we explore how the experience of persecution under the Umayyads and Abbasid shaped Shia thought and doctrine. We discuss the Muhammad al Baqir and Jaffar as Sadiq and ...  Show more

This episode traces the early developments of Shi’ism. In it we discuss the original schism of authority, how the Shiatul Ali form and the compromise that is reached by the community. We talk about how the divisions between the different tribes reflect the alignments of Pre-Islam ...  Show more

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- How 'al-Shia al-Mufid Li'ilm' helps find the top Marja- Factors that can deem this principle unusable- How the concept of '2 just experts' works to find A'lam - What to do when '2 just experts' disagree?- Can we find ...  Show more

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- Difference in Tahrif hadith in Bukhari and al-Kafi- Why Shias don't accept hadith on distortion in al-Kafi- Why scholars don't delete weak hadith from al-Kafi?- Tampering in Sahih al-Bukhari in the past decades- How S ...  Show more