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Peace, everyone, and welcome back to another installment of the Real Talk podcast.

I'm your host, Tehran, and as always, I'm joined by my brilliant co-host, Roxanna.

Today, we have a very insightful episode planned for you all with a renowned scholar of Islam

who needs no introduction. He was once deemed the unofficial spokesperson in English for mainstream

celifism and in a 2011 New York Times magazine, 10,000-word cover story described him as a rock

star of Western celifism with over a dozen publications under his name,

including the one that has just been released, which will be discussing the episode, titled

Understanding Celifism, Seeking the Path of the Pryas predecessors, we are pleased to welcome Dr.

Shik Yasser Qadi to our platform.

Asalam alaq, Dr. Kadi, and thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to speak about your latest publication.

Wai'am, al-a-a-sala. Thank you very much. The pleasure is mine.

Al-Hamda- it's my genuine pleasure to be interviewed by the both of you.

Just a quick question. My apologies, your

channel is a bit new to me. My people just introduce me to it. The interview is coming from a

faith-based paradigm or is it more academically inclined? Because the same question can be answered

multiple ways depending on if you want prescriptive or descriptive answers. So then I'm aware what is exactly your paradigm on the channel?

Well, our paradigm is more so academically inclined, if that helps.

Okay. Okay. So, inshallah, try to be as neutral as possible and try to be fair.

And if need be, if I want to make a personal disclaimer based on my own understanding, that'll be put into the context as well, inshallah.

Sounds great.

Okay.

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