The Adnan Husain Show

Mar 01 2025 6 ep. 74 mins 45
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Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.

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Spiritual Materialism? Left Politics and Marxian Mysticism w/Rev Left Radio’s Breht O’Shea

Mar 01 2025 85 mins  
*Note: This is only part of the conversation between Brett and Adnan; they continued for another 30 mins! To listen to the entire episode, please subscribe to the Patreon or watch the episode on our YouTube channel, both linked below* What does spirituality on the left look like? In a Ramadan special, Adnan discusses Buddhism and Sufi Islam, the distinctions between mysticism and m

Iran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/ Prof. David N. Yaghoubian

Feb 20 2025 113 mins  
Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and geopolitical relations with imperial powers, Russia and Britain, until the Cold War, when Iran became a pilla

Divide and Conquer: Abusing History to Inflame Sunni-Shi’i Sectarianism w/ Mehmet Ali Arslan

Feb 11 2025 106 mins  
Professor Adnan Husain is joined by activist Mehmet Ali Arslan to examine how sectarian division is being sown by the use and abuse of Islamic and Middle Eastern History. In particular they discuss how Sunni-Shi’i tension and polarization is fanned by references to events of early Islam as well as Ottoman vs. Safavid dynastic competition. They look at an interesting letter from O

A World Order w/o Conscience Structured by Racism and Islamophobia w/ BettBeatMedia

Feb 09 2025 77 mins  
In this episode, Professor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( @BettBeat_Media ). They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China’s role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politic

Gaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/ Sina Rahmani

Feb 09 2025 58 mins  
Professor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) and Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast) discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against US/Western empire, and on the direction of the anti-imperial solidarity movements across Europe and North America. Watch the video edition on our YouT

Adnan Husain Show Launches!

Feb 08 2025 6 mins  
Professor Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain), co-host of Guerrilla History and former host of The Majlis podcast, introduces his new show and YouTube channel. In this episode, he explains his plans and what kinds of content the show will involve. He also discusses why he wants an independent and unaffiliated platform for discussing history, politics, and religion in this age of censorsh