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

    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, contributing to the development of new philosophical theology in the UK.[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 "Immanentism and Exemplarism".[13]

    Academic career

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    Spiker joined Tabah Foundation’s ‘Classification of the Sciences’ project (2014-2022). In 2022, he lectured at Zaytuna College, and by 2023, he became a faculty member at Usul Academy, a private Islamic college located in Lombard, IL.[14]. In 2024, he published Hierarchy and Freedom; which invited debate in scholarly circles on metaphysics.

    Spiker represented Tabah Foundation at the Ottoman Kalam Conference in Istanbul in 2019, presenting on Ottoman theologian Ibn Bahāʾuddīn, merging mystical elements from the school of Ibn Arabi with developed Kalam[15]. On 9 March 2022, he delivered a talk on Islam and Modernity at Keynes Hall, King’s College, University of Cambridge[16].

    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).[17]
    • The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Research, 2022).[18]
    • Hierarchy and Freedom: An examination of some classical metaphysical and post-Enlightenment accounts of human autonomy (Cambridge: New Andalus, 2023).[19]

    Articles

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    • Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature, published on renovatio.zaytuna.edu on August 7, 2023.[20]
    • The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims, published on muslimmatters.org, 20 November 2023. [21]

    References

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    1. ^ "Authors: Hasan Spiker". Zaytuna College. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
    2. ^ Zakaria (9 December 2020). "Workshop: Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders". Tabah Research. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
    3. ^ "Hasan Spiker Presents Original Research in Ottoman Kalam Conference". Tabah Research. 26 January 2016.
    4. ^ Maşuk Aktaş, M. (30 June 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 (21 March 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. 3 November 2019.
    8. ^ Mihirig, Abdurrahman (30 March 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. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
    11. ^ Spiker, Hasan. 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. 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. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
    14. ^ "Faculty: Usul Academy". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
    15. ^ "Hasan Spiker Presents Original Research in Ottoman Kalam Conference: Tabah Foundation". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
    16. ^ "Tabah Foundation Delivered a Talk on Islam and Modernity". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
    17. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2021). "Things as They are". Google Books.
    18. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2022). "The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics". Google Books.
    19. ^ Spiker, Hasan (2023). "Hierarchy and Freedom". Google Books.
    20. ^ Spiker, Hasan (7 August 2023). "Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature". renovatio.zaytuna.edu. Renovatio. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
    21. ^ Spiker, Hasan (20 November 2023). "The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims". MuslimMatters.org. Retrieved 26 July 2024.


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