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Hasan Spiker
HometownCambridge, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish, American
LanguagesEnglish, Arabic
ReligionIslam
BranchSunni
CreedAsh'ari
MovementIslamic neo-traditionalism
Main interest(s)Epistomology, metaphysics, Islamic philosophy, Western philosophy, Modern thought, Secularism, Aqidah, Sufism, Platonism
Alma matterUniversity of London, University of Cambridge

Hasan Spiker [ħasan spaɪkər] is a British philospher, lecturer, author and writer. His scholarship focuses on the comparitive study of Islamic, Greek, and Modern thought.[1][2] His work has included discussions on Kant, Islamic theology and Kalam[3], Muslim scholars such as Ibn Arabi and Ibn Sina[4], as well as global and Western politics.[5] His public lectures, courses and academic work have made him one of the most influential British Muslims in the modern era.[6][7] He is a proponent of the mystic Akbarism school of metaphysics.[8]

Biography

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Youth

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Born to Anglo-American parents who converted to Islam in the 1970s and helped form some of the first Sufi communities in Britain[9], he was raised Muslim, spending most of his childhood in Cambridge, United Kingdom before moving to New Mexico. He later spent twelve years living in several Middle Eastern countries including Jordan and Syria, where he pursued traditional education in the Islamic sciences under local scholars and completed his memorization of the Quran.[10][11]

Education

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Spiker completed a degree in philosophy at the University of London.[12] He subsequently earned his MPhil from the University of Cambridge where he is currently pursuing his doctoral research, studying Plotinus' critique of Aristotle on the topic of divine Immanence.[13]

Publications

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Books

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  • Things as They Are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Research, 2021).[14]
  • The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Research, 2022).[15]
  • Hierarchy and Freedom: An examination of some classical metaphysical and post-Enlightenment accounts of human autonomy (Cambridge: New Andalus, 2023).[16]

Articles

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  • Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature, published on renovatio.zaytuna.edu on August 7, 2023.[17]
  • The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims, published on muslimmatters.org, 20 November 2023.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Authors: Hasan Spiker". Zaytuna College. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  2. ^ Zakaria (2020-12-09). "Workshop: Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders". Tabah Research. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
  3. ^ "Hasan Spiker Presents Original Research in Ottoman Kalam Conference". Tabah Research. January 26, 2016.
  4. ^ Maşuk Aktaş, M. (June 30, 2021). "Hasan Spiker. Things as They Are: Nafs al-amr and the Ontological Foundations of Objective Truth". Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (in Turkish). 26 (50): 247–252.
  5. ^ "Usul Academy - Faculty". usul.academy. Usul Academy (Lombard, IL). Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  6. ^ Birt, Yahya (March 21, 2023). "Learning the mark of the Muslim: Britain's three waves of conversion to Islam". newarab.com. The New Arab.
  7. ^ "Being Muslim in the Modern University - What is an Islamic approach to knowledge? Understanding the pursuit of ilm Speaker: Sidi Hasan Spiker". ihrc.org.uk. Cambridge University Islamic Society, Cambridge UK.: Islamic Human Rights Commission. November 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Mihirig, Abdurrahman (March 30, 2023). "A Critical Review of Hasan Spiker's "Things as They Are: The Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth"". Maydan.
  9. ^ "RETHINKING ISLAM AND THE WEST SEMINAR: MIZAN AND THE NARRATIVE OF ISLAM". bradfordlitfest.co.uk. Bradford Literature Festival. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Interview: Hasan Spiker". Qawwam Magazine. January 30, 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  11. ^ Spiker, Hasan (4 May 2021). Things as They Are (classification of the sciences project tabah papers series number 2 ed.). Tabah Foundation. p. About the Author. ISBN 978-9948-8607-4-7.
  12. ^ Spiker, Hasan (4 May 2021). Things as They Are (classification of the sciences project tabah papers series number 2 ed.). Tabah Foundation. p. About the Author. ISBN 978-9948-8607-4-7.
  13. ^ "Hasan Spiker". University of Cambridge. Faculty of Divinity. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  14. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2021). Things as They are. Tabah Research. ISBN 978-9948-8607-4-7.
  15. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2022). The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics. Tabah Research. ISBN 978-9948-16-655-9.
  16. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2023). Hierarchy and Freedom. New Andalus Press. ISBN 979-8-218-14747-1.
  17. ^ Spiker, Hasan (August 7, 2023). "Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature". renovatio.zaytuna.edu. Renovatio. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  18. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2023-11-20). "The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims". MuslimMatters.org. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
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