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Of the strengths of the Academy number one, and this is without a doubt in my opinion the strongest strength of the Academy is that the Academy

brings in

the context of

Ideas and movers and shakers and thinkers and intellectuals and changes

The Academy brings in the political, the cultural, the social context. You situate what's going on in the greater narrative

So that you are better equipped to understand why what is happening is happening

That is almost absent from most Madrasas. You study an author, you study another author, you study a third author

You barely know the years that they live and die. You have no idea of the societies

They've been enraged in and the influences of the people around them. I remember again when I was applying

You know to to various programs again. This is 2003-2004 when I was applying, right?

And I got accepted to a number of places including Oxford, which I didn't go to obviously and

Yahya Misho was there really nice guy and he was happily showing me a new article. He had just published. It was called

a Mamluk Theologian's response to Abyssinian theology and by Mamluk Theologian

He meant Ibn Taymiyah and I didn't recognize Mamluk Theologian meant Ibn Taymiyah because

Even though I had studied Ibn Taymiyah left him right and I've read ten books of his

We never care to memorize that he's under the Mamluks and that that might have and the the cruise the the invasion of the

Mongolia Empire might have had an impact. This is completely

Delinked. We're simply studying Hamawiyah, Tahawiyah, that muriyah. We're studying it covered a cover, right? We're going over it line by line

but never once were we taught who Ibn Taymiyah was as a person, what era he lived in, what conflicts happened that really might have shaped him, who were the Salatine,

the Mamluks, what were the rise and fall, and

Professor Yahya Misho, great guy intellectual mind. For him, it's the most natural thing in the world. A Mamluk Theologian's response to Ibn Sina's, you know,

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