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Paradigms of Leadership

Cambridge Muslim College

26 episodes

5 months ago

Muslim history brims with detailed accounts of incredible leaders. Some are better known than others but they all demonstrated a range of beautiful leadership qualities that we can learn from today. In Paradigms of Leadership – an ongoing Lecture Series – Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad chooses exemplary figures in Islamic history of every generation, geography and gender, drawing out particular lessons for us: both in the way they carried themselves through society and in the principles they employed in handling the urgent challenges of their day.

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Muslim history brims with detailed accounts of incredible leaders. Some are better known than others but they all demonstrated a range of beautiful leadership qualities that we can learn from today. In Paradigms of Leadership – an ongoing Lecture Series – Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad chooses exemplary figures in Islamic history of every generation, geography and gender, drawing out particular lessons for us: both in the way they carried themselves through society and in the principles they employed in handling the urgent challenges of their day.

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Religion & Spirituality,

Episodes (20/26)

Paradigms of Leadership

1 year ago

1 hour 55 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Cosantino of Paros

In this 24th instalment of our popular 'Paradigms of Leadership' lecture series, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad explores the untold story of European Islam in the life and times of Cosantino of Paros: a Greek convert to Islam who was interrogated by the inquisition in Malta in 1638.

1 year ago

1 hour 33 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

After enduring imprisonment for his resistance to French rule in Senegal, Shaykh Ahmadou Bamba went on to establish the holy city of Touba in modern day Senegal. Writing extensively on Islamic matters to strengthen the faith of the Senegalese people, a legacy which remains to this day. In this instalment of our Paradigms of Leadership Lecture Series, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad explores how this 19th century scholar kept the Islamic tradition alive in Senegal despite great internal and external challenges.

2 years ago

1 hour 24 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Muslim history brims with detailed accounts of incredible leaders. Some are better known than others but they all demonstrated a range of beautiful leadership qualities that we can learn from today. In our ongoing Lecture Series, Paradigms of Leadership, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad chooses exemplary figures in Islamic history of every generation, geography and gender, drawing out particular lessons for us: both in the way they carried themselves through society and in the principles they employed in handling the urgent challenges of their day.

2 years ago

2 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad honours Imam Ali (ra) – a great paradigm of heroism that has always captured the Muslim imagination – by focusing on his esoteric qualities.

2 years ago

1 hour 42 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Shah Shahidullah Faridi

Shah Shahidullah Faridi, born John Gilbert Lennard and raised in a wealthy English family, left his home in search of a Sufi shaykh. We are met with the Chishti Sabri Shaykh, Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah, who Faridi pledged allegiance to, later becoming his spiritual successor. He lived in Karachi for three decades until his death in Ramadan 1978.

3 years ago

1 hour 38 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Swedish artist & anarchist Ivan Aguéli, became Muslim in Paris in the late nineteenth century. Known also as Abd al-Hadi, we learn that he was one of the first Western Europeans to be educated at Al-Azhar University, where he studied Arabic and Islamic philosophy.

3 years ago

1 hour 47 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Ahmed Bullock, was a respected British Muslim, Arabic and Hebrew scholar, dealer in books, and the first English Imam of Oxford. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad takes us through his life by looking at a number of the Imam's own handwritten letters.

3 years ago

1 hour 55 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi of India, navigated unparalleled challenges of tradition and modernity, and was healed from a crisis of faith by revistiting reality through the sirah; the paradigm of human perfection.

4 years ago

1 hour 37 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Ahmad bin Hanbal

Through Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal's awareness of the sanctity and spiritual greatness of the Holy Prophet ﷺ we can reflect on the immense care he took in not only maintaining the words of the Hadith, but also their spirit.

4 years ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Abd al-Rahman Jami

From the life of Abd al-Rahman Jami, a prolific 15th century Persian poet and scholar, we taste a sweet drop from the ocean of his literary works, which sugared the difficult path of spiritual transformation.

4 years ago

1 hour 57 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi

Aziz Mahmud Hudayi of the Ottoman era was both a celebrated statesman and mystic; scholar and musical composer who lived through wealth and poverty. Through his life we are taught that true wealth is a heart that is empty of all but the Divine 'hu'.

5 years ago

1 hour 59 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Imam al-Bukhari

Imam al-Bukhari's scrupulous collation of hadiths remind us that collation was not an end in itself, but a means to conserving the lifestyle of the holy Prophet ﷺ, who exemplifed the archetype of human reality.

5 years ago

1 hour 58 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Sukayna bint al-Hussein

The life of Sayyida Sukayna bint al-Hussain shows us that the people in the time of the Prophet’s ﷺ successors were diverse; and it was a time of hope, a time of happiness in the face of very considerable, sometimes excruciating adversity, a time to embrace life and its brighter aspects.

5 years ago

1 hour 49 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Uthman bin Affan

Through the life of Uthman bin Affan, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad explores how the supposed paradox of 'modesty as a modality of being in leadership' is resolved by the prophetic ideal of a complete lack of ego.

5 years ago

1 hour 45 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar

From the principles of Khawaja Ubaidullah Ahrar, a 15th century spiritual leader of Tashkent, we learn that even the profane can be sanctified by stepping into a space of sacred attentiveness in every breath, where each moment is unique in its divine brilliance.

5 years ago

1 hour 28 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Hussain Ahmed Madani

From the life of Hussain Ahmed Madani, one of the most important political and spiritual leaders of Islam in modernity, and his efforts towards a unified India and inter-religious peace in the days of early independence, we are taught that authentic religion is not about polarisation.

5 years ago

1 hour 27 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

From the life of Imam al-Ghazali, Shaykh Abdal Hakim reflects on what we might learn from the crisis that afflicts the soul when trying to live by ideals in an increasingly materialistic world.

5 years ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Ebussuud Effendi

From the life of Ebussuud Effendi, a paradigmatic Ottoman ‘alim, we learn how he harmonised customary law and the sultanic decree with the ideals of the shari'a, making him one of greatest scholars of the Ottoman Empire.

5 years ago

1 hour 47 minutes

Paradigms of Leadership

Nizam al-Din Awliya

Through the works of Nizam ad-Din Awliya and his biographies we gain a glimpse into the transformative nature of his spiritual gatherings which embraced humanity in all its difference. We learn how, through his simple, loving, and effective teaching the subcontinent submitted to Islam.

5 years ago

1 hour 30 minutes