The Golden Age of Islam?

With the recent spate of memes presenting Anakin Skywalker as the Zoomer hero of the Star Wars prequels, the Pugsters discuss this trend and look under the hood to see why this has become popular with Zoomer men. Starting with the article “Getting Sith-Pilled on the Boomers,” the ...  Show more

Chris couldn’t make up his mind on what to talk about so he decided to talk about both. In part one he discusses our feudal future and the breakdown of the free market, and in the second part he outlines a theory of idolatry and suggests that old fashioned idolatry is coming back ...  Show more

This episode we trace the emergence of orthodoxy in Islamic thought. Starting with the debates about predestination and the nature of the Qu’ran we mark the development of Islamic theology from the writings of Hasan i Basri and the Qadarites or Qadiriyyah to the formation of the ...  Show more

In our last episode of the season we wrap up the intellectual history of Islam by examining how the orthodoxies that we discussed in the previous episode were popularized. We talk about the emerging class of legal scholars called the ulema, the madhabs of Hanafi, Maliki, Shaif, a ...  Show more

Assalamu’alaikum everyone! Today's episode is about why Islam makes sense. This episode talks about a bunch of different religions and goes through a few key contradictions in other religions that prove Islam:)