Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode I have on the show my good friend and co-host of Rila History, Adnan

Hussain.

And today we're going to be talking about the relationship between Islam and Marxism.

Long time listeners of the show will know this is something I'm interested in.

I have many episodes discussing variations of the revolutionary left and different religious

traditions.

I myself have hopefully done some worthwhile work on the Buddhist front and dialectical

materialism we've had on Christians.

We've done an episode with Adnan on St. Francis, which was very well received and still

one of those episodes I'm very proud of.

And so I want to continue doing this.

I don't see it happen a lot on the Marxist left and I think I find these conversations

fruitful and interesting even if you walk away disagreeing with some core arguments made

by me or my guess.

I think it's the worthwhile endeavor.

So Adnan for the two or three people out there who don't know who you are, you just want

to give a quick introduction to who you are.

Sure and it's great to be back in conversation with you on Rev Left.

Of course we enjoy our conversations on Rila History but I really also like these opportunities

to really think about religion, spirituality and the Marxist communist traditions.

I am a professor of medieval Mediterranean and Islamic world history at Queen's University

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