The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #255 – Jordan Peterson & Hamza Yusuf
Topics Discussed: Religious upbringing, Community & freethinking, The glue that holds things together, The problem with our culture, Arabic word for disbeliever, Gratitude despite suffering, Jacques Lusseyran, Repentance, Cleanliness, prayer, discernment, Repentance II, Hamza’s conversion & near-death experience, Preparing to die, What drew Hamza to Islam, Obedience to God—practically & conceptually, Islam vs. collectivist philosophies, Differentiating religious beliefs, Aurel Kolnai, The idea of evil, Religiosity, atheism, values, Creation, evolution, consciousness, Islam in practice, Importance of bridging religions, Summary of Islam’s core beliefs, Commonalities among religions
Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world. He is an advisor to both the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Islamic Studies programme at Stanford University. In addition, he serves as vice-president for the Global Center for Guidance and Renewal, which was founded and is currently presided over by Abdallah bin Bayyah. He also serves as vice-president of the UAE-based Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, where Abdallah bin Bayyah also serves as president.
Books Mentioned in this Podcast with Jordan Peterson & Hamza Yusuf:
Book Title: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William Taylor
Book Title: And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
Author: Jacques Lusseyran
Book Title: Life After Life
Author: Raymond Moody
Book Title: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon
Book Title: The Alchemy of Happiness
Author: Al Ghazzali
Book Title: The Quran
Book Title: The War Against the West
Author: Aurel Kolnai
Book Title: Reading Maimonides’ Philosophy in 19th Century Germany
Author: George Kohler