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During my years in Philosophy of Science, I spent years reading Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Haytham. Most Muslims meet Ibn Taymiyyah through fatwas and never open his critique of logic, where he takes apart Aristotelian syllogism on empiricist grounds. Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics set out experimental method centuries before Europe made it fashionable. Put faith aside and read them as philosophers, and few anywhere compare.
Then there’s Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. In Falsafatuna he took on rationalism and empiricism head-on and built an Islamic theory of knowledge in response. In 1972 he published a probabilistic account of induction, the problem Hume left open. Saddam’s regime executed him in 1980.
Our tradition has thinkers who engaged the West as equals. We just don’t teach them.
Ibn Taymiyyah is amazing, modern computer scientists (like John Sowa) have noted that Ibn Taymiyyah’s aggressive critique of strict Aristotelian logic, where he favored situational analogy (Qiyas al-Tamthil) and learning incrementally from specific data points, uncannily models the exact way Modern Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms operate today. Instead of following rigid rules, they learn patterns dynamically from historical data.
The links to the resources:
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Outraged to hear an anecdote frm Kelantan women. Many find it hard to go for medical procedures, surgery & even cancer treatment as their husbands won't allow it.
Reason? They don't want to end up taking care of the children or do household chores while their wives are absent.
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changing the mindset from "i'm lucky enough" to "alhamdulillah this is the rizq Allah decided for me" is so rewarding. instead of believing that my good fate relies on luck, now i believe my good fate is the result of my own efforts, answered prayers, and Allah's will.
This is my second year spending my birthday week on a solo trip. And I'm ending the night with a lovely random dinner hehe.
It's been a fun cultural and historical adventure.
Early birthday present.
Wanted to get me the A Love Supreme by Coltrane but this was the more barang rare instead 😂
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You don’t like the surge of Rohingya people in Malaysia because you hate them, i don’t like the surge of their people in my country because i hate people who brought them here illegally and took advantage of their suffering. We are not the same. This is pure hatred and evil.
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If hope feels too heavy, borrow something smaller: curiosity. What might tomorrow reveal? Who might surprise you? Which version of yourself have you not met yet?
Been in and out of hospital this week. New diagnosis. Had to forgo going to Maldives for a conference.
But all with good reasons InshaAllah. So many (good) things happened this week too.
{ وَلَسَوۡفَ یُعۡطِیكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرۡضَىٰۤ }
[Surah Aḍ-Ḍuḥā: 5]
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ibn arabi believed that language itself functioned as a barzakh, “an intermediary veil that reveals even as it conceals”
Oh, discussing literature with foreign man on dating apps, while getting French and Arabic lessons 😂
3 upcoming trips in the next coming months, with coffee meets slotted in between.
Malé, Jakarta, Jogja, and Algiers.
Omo so my middle name is Husna which is Husn in Urdu and I need to stop making a confused face because I got called يا حسني today.
