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“Spiritual Human” Interview with Gregory A Barker

“SPIRITUAL HUMAN” INTERVIEW WITH GREGORY A. BARKER Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/business/consultancy/directoryofexpertise/drgregbarker/  Sincere thanks to Dr. Barker for agreeing to this interview Musa Askari: I would like to begin with your “spiritual quest” as a seeker … Continue reading

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“Spiritual Human” Interview with Tim Winter / Abdal Hakim Murad

Tim Winter / Abdal Hakim Murad is lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and is dean of the Cambridge Muslim College, UK, which trains imams for British mosques. In 2010 he was voted Britain’s most influential Muslim … Continue reading

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Weapons Without Boundaries : a spiritual – humanist response to terrorism

by Musa Askari originally published in the Journal, InterReligious Insight – July 2012  full article  http://www.interreligiousinsight.org/bedlam_code/data/2012-07_a4.pdf If we are going to address ourselves to the issue of terrorism let us state the obvious and most important at the outset: the threat … Continue reading

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When The Atheist Met The Mystic

Sincere thanks to Professor Gregory A. Barker on the following book review. “Towards A Spiritual Humanism” is as a result of many hours of dialogue sessions between Hasan Askari and Jon Avery in June 1989. Hasan and Jon met one another at … Continue reading

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From Interreligious Dialogue to Spiritual Humanism

By Professor Hasan Askari “I have always looked at religious diversity with a sense of wonder. The differences between religious beliefs and practices have never bothered me, nor have their conflicting truth-claims unnerved me. I was mystified by the fact … Continue reading

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Why do we have more than one religion on our planet?

Extract of speech by Professor Hasan Askari, delivered in 1995, (full speech on above page) “It was in mid-sixties that I made a simple discovery which was infact quite obvious. Namely, that my religion was one among many in the … Continue reading

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Spiritual Humanism has three postulates

Spiritual Humanism has three postulates:  by Hasan Askari 1) Humanity is one organic ecological whole as a planetary form of life. 2) Already we believe in it, we hear it, humanity is one economic political whole. Because of modern revolutions in information technology. … Continue reading

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Theory of Evolution forestalled in drama, poetry & symbol

“There are two extremely crucial moments in our modern transformation which both humanists and Muslims and religious people in general have to come to terms with. The first moment which created the greatest upheaval in our thought came about through … Continue reading

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Plotinus, father of Neo-Platonism

“This is not a journey for the feet; the feet bring us only from land to land; nor need you think of coach or ship to carry you away; all this order of things you must set aside and refuse … Continue reading

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Spiritual Humanism – a call to repel evil with the Good

“Spiritual Humanism is convinced that there are resources within the human soul to repel the evil with the good, that truth and virtue have their own power to defend themselves. We should have long given up the very idea of … Continue reading

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