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An Islamic WorldView
by Asad Zaman
Tools for de-programming required to cleanse our minds, hearts and souls of Eurocentric worldviews created by Western education. This podcast is English language only. For URDU podcast, see https://anchor.fm/asad-zaman2
Episodes
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Hegemony of the Dollar: Causes and Consequences
For writeup, see: http://bit.ly/AZUSD - This podcast explain the origin of dollar based trading system in Bretton Woods. The Nixon Shock of 1971 delinked dollars from gold, and led to the Petro-dollar system which continues to this day. This gives massive advantage to the USA, allowing it to…
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How Power Shapes Our Thoughts
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/how-power-shapes-our-thoughts/ We are used to thinking of "knowledge" as valid information about the world we live in. However, our knowledge consists of information we have received from history books and...
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Life Journey 3: Intellectual History of Europe
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/07/07/life-journey-3-intellectual-history-of-europe/ We start from the premise that economics in particular, and the social sciences in general, are presented as "sciences", but in fact are eurocentric…
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My Life Journey: Beginnings
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/my-life-journey-beginnings/ This is the first of a sequence of posts about my life journey, which eventually led me to the realization that the education given to me at the finest universities in the West,...
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Crypto Assets Through Islamic Lens
{writeup; http://bit.ly/AZcrypto} There are two different questions: How to apply Islamic rules to crypto currency within the Capitalist society in which we live? This is entirely different from how to construct an Islamic society, and what would the role of crypto currency be within such a...
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Introduction to Real Statistics
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/introduction-to-real-statistics/ This is the introductory motivational chapter of a revolutionary new textbook "Real Statistics: A Radical Approach". It explains how the positivist philosophical foundations...
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European Transition to a Market Society
For detailed writeup, and links to relevant materials, see: http://bit.ly/AZGTET - This podcast summarizes Karl Polanyi's masterpiece: The Great Transformation: Political and Economic Origins of our Times. It explains how a traditional society based on Biblical values was transformed into a…
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Learn Who You Are!
How can we discover our true identities? This is the most important question we face in our lives, and it is also the most difficult. This lecture explains why. Briefly, because we are far more valuable than we realize, many powerful forces feed us false identities so that they can exploit us.…
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Role of Islam in the Modern World
{Writeup: http://bit.ly/AZrim} This lecture explains that the central problem facing the Muslim Ummah is shock-and-awe of Western knowledge. The widespread idea that we need guidance from the West is in conflict with central Islamic belief that the Quran provides us with complete and perfect...
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Learning to Value our Heritage
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/learning-to-value-our-heritage/
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The Heart and Soul of Islamic Economics
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/the-heart-and-soul-of-islamic-economics/
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Islamic Approaches to Economic Problems
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/islamic-approaches-to-economic-problems/ This episode provides a brief description and excerpts from my paper entitled “Islam Versus Economics”, as Chapter 2 of Handbook on Islam and Economic Life, Edited…
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The Puzzle of Western Social Science
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/the-puzzle-of-western-social-science/ INTRODUCTION: Briefly, we can state the puzzle as: “Why does Western Social Science Claim to be UNIVERSAL, when it is based on analysis of European historical...
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The Ghazali Project: Revival of Deen
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/the-ghazali-project-revival-of-deen/
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Tools for de-programming required to cleanse our minds, hearts and souls of Eurocentric worldviews created by Western education. This podcast is English language only. For URDU podcast, see https://anchor.fm/asad-zaman2
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