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About:
Dr. Shadee Elmasry was born and raised in New Jersey. He began studying the traditional sciences rigorously at age eighteen. He studied in Yemen, Mecca and Madina, London and Cairo under several veteran ulama. He studied Arabic Maliki fiqh, usul, aqida and suluk. Among his teachers are Mahmoud Shabieb, Rami Nsour, Salek bin Sidna, Muhammad al-Jindi, Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Habib Umar bin Hafiz, and Hafiz Ghulam Yasin.
In addition to traditional learning, Dr. Elmasry has received a masters and PhD in religious studies, completing his master's thesis at The George Washington University and his PhD at The University of London, SOAS on Da'wa in the Works of Imam Abd Allah bin Alawi al-Haddad.
Dr. Elmasry went on to teach at several universities including Yale, The University of London SOAS, Trinity College, Hartford Seminary and Manhattanville College. Currently, he has found his way back home as Scholar in Residence and Director of Education at the New Brunswick Islamic Center in New Jersey. He is also the founder and head of Safina Society-an institution dedicated to disseminating Ahl al-Sunna & Jama knowledge live and online.
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0:00 New Jersey
2:09 Shaykh Hamza Karamalli
3:00 Safina Recon mission
5:45 Answering Atheist doubts
7:16 Reviving the Foundation of Islam
7:47 What is Kalam?
12:40 The science of Hadith
15:07 Christian response to Heresy
17:30 Why is it called Kalam?
21:10 Link between Logic & Kalam
23:10 The 3 eras of kalam
27:55 The Abbasids & Knowledge
33:15 Understanding Mu'tazili Arguments
35:43 What is Kalam 2.0?
37:30 Neo-Platonism
41:43 Imam Ghazalis refutation of the philosophers
45:43 Kalam vs Falsafa
46:50 Modern world vs Aristotle
51:20 The Sciences dying
53:15 The main theological issue of today
55:50 Source of Atheism
58:02 The 3 world views
1:00:00 The problem of evil & christians
1:05:15 Shaykh Mustafa Sabri & Evolution
1:06:17 The Contingency Argument
1:16:00 Atheist responses to contingency
1:18:10 The Fallacy of composition?
1:21:20 The Laws of Nature
1:25:30 Aquinas' arguments on contingency
1:29:04 The 4 Arguments for God
1:31:03 Proof for Prophets
1:32:46 Famous thinkers spreading doubt
1:34:50 William Lane Craigs flaws
1:38:52 Problems with Tajsim
1:42:07 Why Islam is True course