Traversing Traditions From Medina to Yale
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:30.9 | Thank you very much for having me. So I was asked to give some reflections about the two different |
| 0:45.5 | paradigms that I've studied from. And so my talk today is going to be somewhat more of a |
| 0:49.7 | discussional narrative rather than a deep academic paper. I'll begin with an anecdote. My master's |
| 0:56.3 | dissertation at the University of Medina was entitled in Arabic obviously Jahangib in |
| 1:01.2 | Salfon and his effects on the theological groups. And it was an 800 page dissertation in Arabic |
| 1:08.4 | that was awarded the highest honors. And I felt after four years of research in Medina about |
| 1:15.3 | Jahangib in Salfon, surely nobody in the world would know more than I did about Jahangib in Salfon. |
| 1:20.8 | And so as soon as I arrived at Yale University, the first thing I did the first week |
| 1:25.6 | is I walked into sterling library and I researched who else had written about Jahang in the Western |
| 1:31.2 | tradition. And I came across an article written by Richard M. Frank before I was born actually |
| 1:36.8 | entitled The Neo-Platonism of Jahangib in Salfon. And I rushed eagerly to |
| 1:43.8 | go and read the article on the sixth floor where the article selections were. And I remember I |
| 1:48.7 | read that article and I reread it and I reread it three times I read it and it was one of my first |
| 1:55.0 | exposures to the two different worlds that we are now discussing today. The article of Richard |
| 2:02.7 | M. Frank hardly referenced most of the material that I had put in my dissertation. It really seemed |
| 2:09.6 | to ignore many of the sources that I was using. And yet what he was talking about really seemed |
| 2:17.2 | completely foreign to my entire dissertation. Faculty of the matter is and I don't mind confessing |
| 2:22.4 | this at the time. This was almost 20 years ago. I really didn't understand Richard M. Frank's |
| 2:28.0 | article or his thesis or the entire like the point of the article itself. I had never studied |
| 2:34.7 | Neo-Platonism in Medina and it didn't quite grasp what he was trying to convey. So the talk |
| 2:40.5 | that I wanted to begin with this anecdote because to me it really illustrates that the two paradigms |
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