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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sometimes in life, you gotta go big, and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai. |
0:09.0 | A city-sized playground in a vast desert, where the tallest building in the world dwarfs |
0:14.2 | super-sized superyots, and there's no end to high-end shops. |
0:21.0 | So go big, go bold, go beautiful, and fly to Dubai with Virgin Atlantic, book now. |
0:31.0 | When it comes to the main historical antecedent for many modern jihadis, |
0:36.0 | one man stands head and shoulders above the rest. |
0:40.0 | One scholar writes, |
0:41.0 | advocates of violent jihad from the late 1970s to the present, |
0:46.0 | quote, him, more than any other medieval scholar. |
0:50.0 | Another one claims that Xi's and many Sunnis blame him for introducing excessive intolerance |
0:57.0 | and theological error into their religion. |
1:01.0 | This is a man whose thrilling life foreshadows many of the issues with radicalism |
1:06.0 | that Islam is facing today, a man who baked in an uncompromising even brutal zeal |
1:13.0 | to the religion still felt 700 years later. |
1:17.0 | I'm talking, of course, about the 13th, 14th century scholar, theologian warrior, |
1:25.0 | Ibn Taymiyah, the Sheikh of Islam, as he is called by his admirers. |
1:30.0 | Now, Ibn Taymiyah is a pretty controversial character. |
1:35.0 | What does he mean to you? |
1:37.0 | For me, he is the ultimate jurisprudent and pioneer, I would say, |
1:42.0 | of political and militant Sunnislam. |
1:46.0 | Pioneer, I like that word. Ibn Taymiyah was a pioneer, |
1:51.0 | and part of our ongoing series looking at the historical thinkers who have influenced modern |
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