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Johan bin Safwan, who died in 746 Common Era, was a figure who invited condemnations

from Sunnisilotians for his heretical views centuries after his death, yet very little

is known about his life and none of his own works are extant. To discuss with me today

the life works and legacy of this enigmatic figure is Dr Yasukardhi, Dr Kadi completed

his PhD at Yale on Ementemist theology, after his masters at the Islamic University of

Medina where his dissertation was on Johan bin Safwan, Dr Kadi resides in Dallas, Texas

and is the Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America, and he also ministers as an Imam at the East

Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas. Welcome Dr Kadi.

So how are you? Hello and welcome and thank you for having me on on your podcast.

Johan bin Safwan was an administrator to a regional governor in the turbulent last years of the

Umayyad dynasty was executed by a rival ruler in a civil war in 746 Common Era.

Before we look at his life works and legacy tell us what we know about the social political

circumstances he lived in and the intellectual climate. So well, Johan bin Safwan was alive during

the very end of the Umayyad dynasty and so he lived and flourished during the decline of the

Umayyad dynasty. The Umayyad dynasty already seen its heyday and towards the end of the Umayyad

dynasty as is the case in all dynasties there was quite a lot of tension within the royal family

a succession of Khulafat one after the other and of course the Umayyad's and the Abbasids they

always had to deal with internal revolts. Of course early Islam is marked by a myriad of revolts

during Jahams time. There was a number of interesting revolts in his own region of Khurasan.

Jaham lived and died in Khurasan and Nasir Ibn Sayyar who was the last of the Umayyad

governors appointed to Khurasan he was in charge a very efficient and yet all obviously somewhat

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