Renovatio: The Podcast

Mar 18 2025 44 ep. 43 mins 338
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A multimedia, multi-faith publication about the ideas that shape the modern world from the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States, Zaytuna College.

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The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal Education

Mar 18 2025 25 mins  
The Egalitarian Objection to Liberal EducationAnd Why the Liberal Arts Are Indispensable to EqualityBy Thomas Hibbs

Transcendence and TikTok (Audio Essay)

Mar 11 2025 22 mins  
What does it mean to “manifest” something, or for something to “become manifest”? For those familiar with Islamic mystical terminology, the concept of tajallī may come to mind. Often rendered into English as “manifestation,” tajallī denotes the appearance or disclosure of the divine names in physical forms. Similar to the notion of “theophany” in other religious t

Other People's Truths: Reading Sacred Scripture in Secular Settings (Audio Essay)

Feb 18 2025 25 mins  
Sacred scriptures certainly qualify as Great Books, but can they be read as literature in secular settings?Read the essay by Eva Brann- https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/other-peoples-truths

Resisting the Architecture of Apathy (Audio Essay)

Feb 12 2025 20 mins  
The way societies driven by profit and production design and build lived environments breeds an apathy that, unchecked, can only lead to the dissolution of human communities as we’ve known them. Article by Marwa Al-Sabouni https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/resisting-the-architecture-of-apathyRead by Lyba Hussain Produced by Faatimah Knight

What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought (Audio Essay)

Jan 27 2025 17 mins  
The dignity of man in his potential to be whatever he desires to be, this fifteenth-century Italian prince & philosopher gave rise to the modern secular worldview that privileges self-actualization above all else.Essay by Esme Partridge

The Sin of Cosmocide (Audio Essay)

Dec 29 2024 29 mins  

Audio Essay: What Islam Gave the Blues by Sylviane Diouf

Oct 03 2024 43 mins  

Audio Essay: Where Islam and Nationalism Collide by Zaid Shakir

Oct 03 2024 35 mins  

Audio Essay: Counting the Minutes: Productivity and the Well-Lived Day between Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī and Benjamin Franklin

Oct 03 2024 40 mins  

Audio Essay: Courteous Exchange in an Age of Empire by Sarah Barnette

Oct 03 2024 32 mins