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Welcome to Oxford Political Thought - the Oxford podcast where each week guest speakers working on Islam, politics, and history to discuss their cutting-edge research on political thought. Our guests will each speak for 20mins, one after the other and a Q&A discussion will follow. The series convenors are Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's College, University of Oxford) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford).
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Friendship | Associate Professor Nuha al-Sha’ar speaking on ‘Friendship in Islamic Ethical Political Thought: Foundations and Modern Implications’ // Associate Professor SherAli Tareen speaking on ‘Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire’ | Faisal Devji, Nuha al-Sha’ar, SherAli Tareen | 20 Jan 2023 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | The Left | Fadi Bardawil speaking on ‘Nation, Class, Community: Milestones on the path of the 1960s Lebanese New Left’. Nadia Bou Ali speaking on ‘Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Mehdi Amel’s Critique of Edward Said’. | Fadi Bardawil, Nadia Bou Ali, Faisal Devji | 16 Jan 2023 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Dissent | Valerie Hoffman speaking on Charges of Radicalism: Ibāḍī–Wahhābī Polemics and Articulations of Identity. | Valerie Hoffman, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 23 Dec 2022 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | Religion II | Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) speaking on 'Decolonizing the category of religion' and Dr Rushain Abbasi (Stanford University) speaking on 'Regulating Religion in Premodern Islamic Governance'. | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 15 Jul 2022 |
| 5 | Law | Professor Mohammad Fadel speaking on ‘The Protean Sovereign of Sunni Law’ and Professor Lena Salaymeh speaking on ‘Reconsidering the Political in Premodern Islam.' | Mohammad Fadel, Lena Salaymeh | 28 Apr 2022 | |
| 4 | Violence | Nesrine Badawi speaking on ‘Debating Militancy in the Modern World’ and Murad Idris speaking on ‘Theorizing Colonialism, Capitalism, and Violence in an Islamist Key.' | Nesrine Badawi, Murad Idris, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 08 Apr 2022 | |
| 3 | Sovereignty | Neguin Yavari speaking on ‘Islamic imperatives and Islamic rulers’, Samy Ayoub speaking on ‘Law and the Exercise of Power: Debates on Political Legitimacy and Authority in the 19th - 20th centuries Egypt’. | Neguin Yavari, Samy Ayoub, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 02 Mar 2022 | |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Religion | Madawi al-Rasheed speaking on ‘Islamic Reform in Saudi Arabia between “the Violence of the Minority and the Apathy of the Majority”. Pascal Menoret speaking on ‘Graveyard of Clerics’. | Madawi al-Rasheed, Pascal Menoret, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 02 Mar 2022 |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Caliphate | Elizabeth Alexandrin speaking on ‘Empire of the End Time: Fāṭimid Sovereignties in the 4th Century AH/11th Century CE’. Hüseyin Yilmaz speaking on ‘The Ottomans and the Question of the Caliphate'. | Elizabeth Alexandrin, Hüseyin Yilmaz, Faisal Devji, Usaama al-Azami | 01 Mar 2022 |