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This podcast aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective and to open up for informed discussions on the subject. You will find episodes discussing the big religions of the world and historical overviews of important figures from different religious traditions.

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Episodes

The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in Baghdad

Women in the Life and Thought of Ibn Arabi

John Scotus Eriugena & The Division of Nature

The Talmud Explained (w. Zevi Slavin)

Porphyry On The Cave of the Nymphs in Homer's Odyssey

The History of "Hare Krishna" (Gaudiya Vaishnavism)

Rabi'a - Mystic, Saint, and the Mother of Sufi Love

Religion in Ancient Greece

The Lost Suras of the Quran?

Mazdak & Mazdakism - Ancient Persian Communism?

Atlantis of the Sands - The Legend of the Lost City of Arabia

Abd al-Malik - The Caliph Who Shaped Islam?

The Islamic Idealism of Ibn 'Arabi

al-Ghazali, Ibn 'Arabi & The Sufi School of Love | w. Omid Safi

The Sufi School of Love

Zurvanism - The Zoroastrian Heresy?

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi - The Man Who Discovered Mental Health 1,000 Years Too Early

Nicholas of Cusa: Life & Philosophy

What is Taqqiyya?

What is Sharia Law, Really?

Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani & The Qadiri Sufi Order

What is Alchemy?

What Is a Ghoul? (The Terrifying Monster of Arabian Myth)

The Sabians of Harran: A Lost Religion

Who were the Sabians? - The Lost Religion of the Quran

Who are the Druze?

Who are the Jesuits?

Thomas Aquinas - the Greatest Christian Philosopher?

The Amalricians - Pantheist Christianity?

What is Pantheism?

What is Jihad?

Who are the Augustinians?

Was Alcohol Always Forbidden in Islam?

Nasir al-din al-Tusi: The Greatest Islamic Astronomer?

What is the Bektashi Order?

Is Islam a Western Religion?

Sri Ramakrishna & Universal Vedanta

The Book of the Holy Hierotheos

Religion in Ancient Egypt

Pseudo-Dionysius: The Father of Mysticism?

Inayat Khan & Universal Sufism

Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim): The World's Most Famous Book of Magic?

Satanism, Feminism & The Occult | Per Faxneld

The History of Halloween

What is Satanism?

The History of Vampires

Yurei - Japanese Ghosts & Hauntings

The Spooky History of Ghosts

Zar: Spirit Possession Rituals in Egypt

Jinn Possession in the Islamic World