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submitted 5 months ago by Dolores@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

videos, short books, etc. im looking for it as supplementary resources for other reading im doing, i don't need intricate histories of scholars just what the schools are, why they're different, how that manifested in politics

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[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Let's Talk Relgion in YouTube is a channel run by a religious studies graduate who is/was pretty preoccupied with Islam in particular.

He does shorter-form video essays and you'll find some pretty good, reasonably objective treatments of major historical Muslim figures like Avicenna and Ibn Tayymiyah. Even if they aren't explicitly Islamic jurists in and of themselves, often the major historical figures of Islam (as with any religion) is going to either have a significant influence on jurisprudence that came after them or they were at least in part responding to the jurisprudence that existed prior to them/around them (and very often it's both a response to and an influence on it.) I don't adhere to the idea that politics flows downstream from culture but in this case it's applicable because these major figures influenced Islamic culture and thinking which very often goes on to influence jurisprudence.

The reason why I'm recommending this channel is because it doesn't have a specific sectarian bias (although he seems to really enjoy Sufism in particular) as this means he's going to be less inclined to doing something like misrepresenting the influence of pre-Islamic culture on Islam or shitting on Alevis for being heretical and so on. Not trying to implythat this is is something a Muslim cannot do but... I'd want to check sources myself before I took the opinions of a Protestant on the topic of Catholicism on board personally, y'know?

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