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I have corresponded with Mufti Muadh Chati from Blackburn for over a year on hadith matters. He has always been unfailingly polite and courteous toward me which has left a lasting impact upon me. This is our first time meeting albeit online.
We speak about his education in South Africa, including details never previously shared on bureaucratic challenges that could have led to an early termination. Mufti Muadh gives advice about building my own collection of hadith sources as historical documents. Finally, we have a presentation of his forthcoming book on Hanafi jurisprudence.
You can find more about Mufti Muadh Chati at https://islamicknowledge.co.uk.
We are sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases. Visit IHRC bookshop at shop.ihrc.org and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details.
Timestamps:
01:19 About guest's educational background and time in South Africa
08:40 Building a hadith collection for historicist interest
15:00 On biographical dictionaries and recommendations for Subki and a Siyar compedium
18:15 On biographical dictionaries for Ottoman figures (al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmānīyaḧ)
28:30 On Ṭabarānī to capture outliers and Ibn Ḥibbān
36:30 On modern compendiums and commentary literature
41:10 On the guest’s new book on Hanafism: inspiration and research
51:10 Screenshare of pages from book
Summary: https://use.summyt.app/r/3V25HkSmkr
@IKcourses
I have corresponded with Mufti Muadh Chati from Blackburn for over a year on hadith matters. He has always been unfailingly polite and courteous toward me which has left a lasting impact upon me. This is our first time meeting albeit online.
We speak about his education in South Africa, including details never previously shared on bureaucratic challenges that could have led to an early termination. Mufti Muadh gives advice about building my own collection of hadith sources as historical documents. Finally, we have a presentation of his forthcoming book on Hanafi jurisprudence.
You can find more about Mufti Muadh Chati at https://islamicknowledge.co.uk.
We are sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases. Visit IHRC bookshop at shop.ihrc.org and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details.
Timestamps:
01:19 About guest's educational background and time in South Africa
08:40 Building a hadith collection for historicist interest
15:00 On biographical dictionaries and recommendations for Subki and a Siyar compedium
18:15 On biographical dictionaries for Ottoman figures (al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmānīyaḧ)
28:30 On Ṭabarānī to capture outliers and Ibn Ḥibbān
36:30 On modern compendiums and commentary literature
41:10 On the guest’s new book on Hanafism: inspiration and research
51:10 Screenshare of pages from book
Summary: https://use.summyt.app/r/3V25HkSmkr
![💧EP051 GUEST EPISODE (5/8) Toilets and Waste in Andalusia [AUDIO ONLY]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lx41j8eqdXY/mqdefault.jpg "💧EP051 GUEST EPISODE (5/8) Toilets and Waste in Andalusia [AUDIO ONLY]
You can’t think about clean water without also thinking about removing dirty water and other waste. In this episode we take a deep dive into sewage (figuratively speaking) on the basis of excavations and documents that survive about cities in Muslim Spain in the Middle Ages.
Speaker: Ieva Rèklaityte. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes.
Ieva Reklaityte is an independent researcher. She graduated in Archaeology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and did her PhD thesis at the University of Saragossa in Spain.
This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and Jouke Heringa.
Further reading:
Ieva Reklaityte, Vivir en una ciudad de Al-Andalus: hidraulica, saneamiento y condiciones de vida (University of Saragossa, 2012).
Ieva Rèklaityte, (ed.), Water in the Medieval Hispanic Society: Economic, Social and religious implications (Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2019).
Ieva Rèklaityte, “Les latrines en al‑Andalus : leurs principales caractéristiques et les conditions sanitaires urbaines (The Latrine in Al‑Andalus : its Main Characteristics and the Urban Hygienic Conditions)” in “Lieux dhygiène et lieux daisance en terre dIslam (VIIe-XVe siècle)” special issue of Médiévales 70 (Spring 2016) edited by Patrice Cressier, Sophie Gilotte et Marie-Odile Rousset, https://doi.org/10.4000/medievales.7683 (and see this special issue in general).
Edmund Hayes:
twitter.com/Hedhayes20
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/
https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes
https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/
Abbasid History Podcast is sponspored by IHRC Bookshop
Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases online and in-store.
Visit IHRC bookshop at shop.ihrc.org and use discount code AHP15 at checkout.
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