Islam and Anarchism with Mohamed Abdou

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Professor and scholar Mohamed Abdou joins Breht to discuss his book "Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances". Together, they discuss core concepts within Islam, the importance of decolonization, anarchist political theory, the question of violence in revolutionary struggle, Mohamed's construction of Anarcha-Islam, contradictions between capitalism and Islamic teachings, and much more!

Check out Mohamed's book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341927/islam-and-anarchism/

Find Mohamed's other work, learn more about him, and contact him here: https://www.mabdou.net/

Outro music: "Gather Round" by Brother Ali feat. Amir Sulaiman

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev. Left Radio. On today's episode we have on Muhammad Abduh
0:12.0	to talk about his book Islam and anarchism, relationships and resonances. Those who follow the feed
0:18.9	who subscribe to us on podcast apps will see that earlier this week we released an episode with
0:23.6	my co-host of thriller history Adnan Hussein on Marxism and Islam trying to find some of the
0:30.0	relationships and resonances there and now we're going to release this longer episode with
0:35.1	Muhammad Abduh on Islam and anarchism which is really interesting it's wide-ranging it's interdisciplinary
0:41.7	and I wanted to do sort of both sides of this coin because when we explore religion on this show
0:48.0	we definitely you know we don't just want to always make it you know religion and Marxism in
0:53.0	particular but see the other ways in which you know revolutionary left wing ideologies can
0:58.3	intermingle with religious traditions. For example I recently did that speech at ASU that I released
1:05.9	on this podcast called dialectics and liberation where I was really talking about you know the
1:10.2	dialectical materialist analysis of Marxism and how that dovetails with certain philosophical
1:15.3	outlooks in the traditions of Buddhism and I have on anarcho spirituality David who runs the
1:22.2	page anarcho spirituality on Instagram coming on later this month to talk about anarchism in
1:28.0	Buddhism and kind of have a dialogue between a Marxist and an anarchist who are both you know
1:33.1	deeply rooted in the traditions of Buddhism as our spiritual as our primary spiritual practice
1:38.8	in tradition. So I like exploring these from different angles and this is no different this is a
1:43.3	really fascinating text and a really fascinating discussion I had with Mohammed on it you can tell
1:48.8	the way Mohammed talks that he is a broad thinker he's trying to weave together you know various
1:54.8	analyses and you know bases of knowledge in a really compelling way and it's a fascinating
2:01.2	lesson. So whether you want to learn more about anarchism or probably from more of you want to
2:05.8	learn more about Islam and the way that they intersect and some core concepts within Islam that
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