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This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/introduction-to-real-statistics/  This is the introductory motivational chapter of a revolutionary new textbook "Real Statistics: A Radical Approach". It explains how the positivist philosophical foundations of statistics make it impossible to understand central concepts like probability and causality. To correct this problem, we need to rebuild the entire discipline on foundations of a realist philosophy of science, as advocated by Islamic epistemological principles

For detailed writeup, and links to relevant materials, see: http://bit.ly/AZGTET - This podcast summarizes Karl Polanyi's masterpiece: The Great Transformation: Political and Economic Origins of our Times. It explains how a traditional society based on Biblical values was transformed into a secular modern society. The key driver of this change was the industrial revolution, which created massive surplus outputs. In order to be able to produce the surplus, an agricultural revolution was required to feed the masses of laborers involved in industrial production. In addition, it was necessary to create a labor market, where human lives could be bought and sold for money. This was created by the movement for enclosures, which was a massive landgrab by the aristocracy, which prevented the masses from accessing the land to feed themselves. Land, instead being accorded respect as Mother Earth, which feeds and supports our lives, was turned into a marketable commodity. This failure to recognize the real value of our habitat is at the root of the current environmental crisis.   

How can we discover our true identities? This is the most important question we face in our lives, and it is also the most difficult. This lecture explains why. Briefly, because we are far more valuable than we realize, many powerful forces feed us false identities so that they can exploit us. For writeup and links to related materials see: https://bit.do/azwya -

{Writeup: http://bit.ly/AZrim} This lecture explains that the central problem facing the Muslim Ummah is shock-and-awe of Western knowledge. The widespread idea that we need guidance from the West is in conflict with central Islamic belief that the Quran provides us with complete and perfect guidance until the day of judgment. The lectures explains how to resolve this conflict. The solution to the problem requires massive amounts of work on the intellectual battlefield. The task facing us is to reconstruct the entire body of modern knowledge on the firm foundations of the Quran and Sunnah. For an URDU version o this podcast, see: https://anchor.fm/asad-zaman2/episodes/Atheism-2-e1gakuh  

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/learning-to-value-our-heritage/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/the-heart-and-soul-of-islamic-economics/

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/islamic-approaches-to-economic-problems/ This episode provides a brief description and excerpts from my paper entitled “Islam Versus Economics”, as Chapter 2 of Handbook on Islam and Economic Life, Edited by M. Kabir Hassan, Mervyn K. Lewis, Edward Elgar Press, 2014.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/the-puzzle-of-western-social-science/ INTRODUCTION: Briefly, we can state the puzzle as: “Why does Western Social Science Claim to be UNIVERSAL, when it is based on analysis of European historical experience?”. Many authors have recognized this problem, which manifests itself in many different ways. Most explicit recognition is expressed in the following quotes: Timothy Mitchell: “The possibility of social science is based upon taking certain historical experiences of the West as the template for a universal knowledge.” To read more ... see link to blog post above, or listen to the podcast

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/the-ghazali-project-revival-of-deen/