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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Islamic Thought - A Short History with Dr Fitzroy Morrissey

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is Muslim, so if we are to fully understand the modern world, we need to know about Islam. Dr Fitzroy Morrissey, Examination Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, talks to Alex Andreou about his book A Short History of Islamic Thought, which traces through fourteen centuries of Islamic history to discuss questions of interpretation, legacy, the lives of Muslims and how they relate to others. https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast  https://headofzeus.com/books/9781789545654 Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.8

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I loved going to college.

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1:12.3

As someone who grew up in Greece, a country with an unhappy Ottoman past and complicated geopolitical present,

1:19.0

I have to work actively to counteract the emotive imagery that even a mere mention of Islam evokes.

1:26.4

Breaking away from tropes is not easy when I have been in a way radicalized by easy binaries, by a culture, a region, a history, an entire people

1:37.7

reduced to a painting of a swarthy, biturban Turk with a curved sword slaughtering women and babes in my primary school history book.

1:48.0

The antidote?

1:49.3

To seek, to read, to understand, to reflect. and to use the brighter light of others more educated than me

1:56.8

to dispel my own shadows. In that endeavor, a short history of Islamic thought by the historian Fitzroy Morrissey has been a valuable addition to my library and I have the very man with me today.

2:09.6

Welcome Fitzroy Morrissey.

2:11.3

Hello, Alex, thanks very much for a very kind introduction.

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