Faith in Fine Print

Sep 06 2024 23 ep. 62 mins 31
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Faith in Fine Print is a podcast that seeks to drive conversations about understanding faith in the modern world. A marriage of art, culture, and academia.

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EP 23 | Suhba is the Secret Sauce: Paradigms of Knowledge and Islamic Literacy on College Campuses | Imam Dr. Ebadur Rahman, Imam Omer Bajwa

Sep 06 2024 89 mins  
In this episode, Nihal interviews the Muslim chaplains of Columbia and Yale Universities. They discuss how young people can learn to be confident on college campuses in the United States through a combined effort of companionship and knowledge. This episode was recorded last summer. Ebad(ur) Rahman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia. He co

EP 22 | Demystifying the Hadith Tradition | Shaykh Dr. Issam Eido

Feb 20 2024 80 mins  
Many times people find the hadith tradition very cumbersome to navigate. Whether it is understanding how to engage with hadith in a modern context, what terms such as "strong" or "weak" mean, or how a non-scholar should engage with the tradition. In this episode, Nihal interviews Shaykh Dr. Issam Eido. He is a world-class expert on the study of hadith. This po

EP 21 | Genocide in Gaza: What We Can Do? | Mohamad Habehh

Dec 27 2023 61 mins  
As the United Nations has reiterated multiple times, Israel is in violation of international law through its settlements. The Israeli government’s disproportionate response to Hamas’s October 7th attack has resulted in the United Nations declaring that “there is an ongoing campaign by Israel resulting in crimes against humanity in Gaza.” They describe the situation in Gaza

EP 20 | Rewarding Genocide: The Ethnic Cleansing of Bosnian Muslims & the Moral Failing of the United Nations | Dr. Ermin Sinanović, Nihal Khan

Jul 14 2023 64 mins  
This week marked the 28th commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide. In this episode, Nihal speaks to Dr. Ermin Sinanović, a political scientist who is an expert on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also trained as an Islamic scholar from the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Nihal and Dr. Ermin discussed the state of Muslims in Bosnia after the break up of Yugoslavia, Ser

EP 19 | Between Granada & Istanbul: Reclaiming the Muslim Historical Narrative | Abu Ayyub Marulanda

Jun 26 2023 83 mins  
Knowing our history as Muslims is imperative when it comes to knowing our narrative. The importance of understanding our collective Muslim history is directly correlated with how we engage with our faith. Do we accept our sources to be true and telling of our past, or should we trust orientalist sources to recall our own narrative? In this episode, Abu Ayyub Marulanda discusses the

EP 18 | Cultural Production, Making Deliberate Communities, & the Loneliness Pandemic | Imam Ahmad Deeb, Ahmed Askary

Feb 20 2023 68 mins  
This episode covers the macro and micro elements associated with producing deliberate communities. How do Muslims construct deliberate communities? How has industrialization lead to the pandemic of loneliness on a grand scale? How do we curate culture organically? How does Islam function in an urban vs. suburban setting? These are some of the questions that Imam Ahmad Deeb and Ahme

EP 17 | Artistic Spirituality, Rediscovering al-Andalus, and the Real Rumi | Ali Keeler

Nov 23 2022 33 mins  
Meet Ali Keeler, one of the founders of Al Firdaus Ensemble, a Spain-based musical band which combines between classical, western, Moroccan, Andalusi, and Syrian styles in their music. Known for their Celtic Salawat and Madha Morisco, Nihal sat with Ali and spoke about spiritual expression through art and how to bring people together through art. They also spoke about their new alb

EP 16 | Beyond Bhangra: Islam in South Asia, Colonialism-Induced Forgetfulness, & Desi Inferiority Complexes | Saaleh Baseer, Zeshan Gondal

Oct 30 2022 76 mins  
Along with Zeshan Gondal, FFP was honored to have Saaleh Baseer join us once again! Nihal took a journey with Saaleh and Zeshan into a history of South Asia. They spoke about the importance of knowing one's ethnic roots, how Islam developed in South Asia, the Mughal and Ottoman empires, and who some of the major Muslim scholars of South Asia were. They also spoke about the effects

EP 15 | Dying Gracefully, Facing Mortality, & Preparing for Death | Chaplain Sondos Kholaki

Oct 24 2022 46 mins  
Death can come upon anyone at anytime. Though, indeed a saddening event, how we prepare for dying may ease the pangs of it on those closest to us. Nihal spoke with Chaplain Sondos Kholoki about how the Muslim community can better prepare for death communally. She spoke about her experiences working as a hospital chaplain, her experiences helping others grieve their loved ones, and

EP 14 | Continuous Learning, Thinking Before Posting, & the Fiqh of Social Media | Omar Usman

Sep 05 2022 70 mins  
Recorded during the COVID lockdown in 2021, Nihal and Alman met with Omar Usman, a Dallas-based writer and thinker. Omar helped found Qalam Institute, MuslimMatters.org, and a host of other organizations. In this episode, Omar spoke about the need of being a continuous learner, evolving as a community, and how Muslims can harness the power of social media to meet their spiritual ne