The Muslim Influence on Europe and the West - Part 2 of 2 (Understanding Islam Series: Session 6)

[@IslamsUntoldSecrets-qs2ik]

*Alhamdulillah for the blessings 🙏🌟 May Allah's protective embrace shield us all from harm and guide us through every step*

[@bayreuth79]

Sh Abdul Hakim Murad delivers another thoroughly interesting and informative lecture on Islam.

[@voiceforjusticeandproporti5543]

Guys, I really appreciate you making these lectures available. Really amazing.

[@786humaira1]

Wow what a great lecture by this great man. So scholarly. May God bless you Shaykh Murad with a long and healthy life with Peace and Progress.

[@manol-t]

I just wanted to say that this series has made me appreciate Islam and I am an orthodox Bulgarian, that was brought up with a good amount of lies about the Turkish people. I am humbled by the richness and depth of the arab culture.

[@trendtraderx]

interesting talks. there might also be a good lecture in showing 'where/how it all went wrong'? and is that related as some say to the current non existence of a caliphate? what philosphy led to the downfal of the ottoman empire etc? and an examination of current impetus for re establishing the caliphate and is it valid?

[@Romanljc6]

Most of the ancient Classical literature which survives today was preserved through the Byzantine Empire. The majority of the works of philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, and the historical texts of Greece and Rome were saved by Byzantine scholars who maintained the ancient traditions of literature and learning. Works that had been lost for centuries in the West were reintroduced by Byzantines fleeing the final occupation of Constantinople, the last capital of the Empire, in 1453.

[@voiceforjusticeandproporti5543]

Could you provide references?

[@rafthejaf8789]

I think it is possible to view what we call "The West" today as the abused orphan of the Roman empire: A violet and brutal father figure who then died and left his children struggling to understand what had happened. The Romans where by and large the only classical civilisation that people in the western European landmass had had contact with. Rome was the least interesting of the classical civilisations. The Roman were nihilistic, ruthless and violent business men who lacked any real spiritual beliefs. They destroyed the older more spiritual and Earth loving cultures they came into contact with and replaced them with a very practical, non sacred and boring reality. Islam by contrast was able to draw on many ancient civilisations to create a very intellectually rich and successful socio/economic reality. This must have both baffled and enraged the medieval Western Christian world that had no real idea how to deal with it. The Church and the medieval Western ruling elites needed to create the stereotypes and demonisation of Islam in order not to allow their own body politics to collapse into a feeling of complete failure. Understanding this medieval mindset would go a long way to ending not only the West's continuing conflict with Islam (think of "war on terror") but also the socio/psychological reasons behind the Western obsession with materialism, consumerism and owning stuff which is now rapidly destroying the planet.

[@karimb972]

Great comment

[@rafthejaf8789]

@@karimb972 Thanks.

[@trendtraderx]

pierre grimes has done nice video lectures on ytube on the dual theory such as 91 Platonism and Alchemy (6 of 8) and Pseudo-Dionysius Ten Letters titled as 7 (1 of 10) uploaded by fleshofgod