The Adnan Husain Show

Adnan Husain

Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.

  1. 19h ago

    Names of God (10): al-Aleem, "The All-Knowing"

    Adnan and Marc continue the series exploring the Names of God, following their appearance in the Qur'an as developed in Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani's The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur'an, ed. and tr. Yousef Casewit. This episode discusses al-Aleem or the Knower, often characterized as "The All-Knowing." We reflect on the complex and fundamental questions of knowledge, perception, knowing, its relationship to existence and agentive action, other names like the preceeding al-Qadeer. Engaging with the work of al-Ghazali in his treatise on the "beautiful names," al-Qashani's glossary of Sufi terms, and al-Tilimsani's work, we discussed some components of inexhaustible topics connected to the divine name, al-Aleem. We were enriched by and grateful again for an opportunity to reflect together on the Names. Inshallah, you found something beneficial or resonant in our shared exploration. Again, we welcome your comments, queries, corrections in discussion of the video! Follow Marc's channel for supplementary videos related to this series: youtube.com/@UCfHgOV8plCkQgVQrUtkdRQA Do you want to learn more about the History of Islam and Muslim Societies? Join as a patron/supporter on Patreon, Substack, or Buymeacoffee subscriber at the $5 level to join the course November-February: Islam and Muslim Societies, 550-1453, for an 8 session online course that includes free lectures posted here on YouTube and a special seminar meeting for discussion, q&a, reading and analysis of translated primary sources and texts for a more in depth and enriching experience interacting together. Sundays 1pmET Nov 15, 29; Dec 13, 27, 2026; Jan 10, 24; Feb 7, 21, 2027. What better on a cold winter Sunday than learning together! Space is limited for the seminar. Sign up: www.patreon.com/adnanhusain, www.substack.com/@adnanahusain or www.buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain You can also make a one-time payment of $20 on www.buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Anyone who cannot pay this nominal course fee, contact me: info@adnanhusain.org We have sponsors--no one seriously interested in participating in the seminar component will be prevented from gaining knowledge! If you would like to sponsor, add $5/month to your subscription for Nov-Feb or make $20 payment on buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain and drop me a note saying it is for a sponsorship. Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.substack.com/@adnanahusain Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: www.substack.com/@adnanahusain

  2. 3d ago

    OH 50-Collaborators, Counter-Intelligence, and Censorship w/Mujamma Haraket

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!! UNLOCKED!! You can gain advance access to such audio content by becoming a paying supporter on patreon.com/adnanhusain or substack.com/@adnanahusain. You also gain access to all my courses. I'm starting a course, Islam and Muslim Societies, 550-1453, see below! The Radical Academy returns with a return of Mujamma Haraket to the channel to discuss his recent account ban on X, the work of translating historical and political documents of resistance factions in Palestine, the strategic calculations and planning of the Tufan al-Aqsa and assessments of its geopolitical consequences in current resistance discussions, the history of the Majd--the counter intelligence operations bureau against "collaborators"--possibly analysis of the recent Israeli security policy report and your comments and questions. It should be a very illuminating, precise and significant discussion also about sources and evidence in historical analysis with a serious scholarly expert and translator. Join us Friday Oct 23rd at 6:30pmET. Follow Mujamma on his new X account: @Mujamma_Haraket Subscribe to his substack where he has published translations as well as articles on the topics we are discussing: substack.com/@mujammaharaket Please support Dahnoun Mutual Aid: https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid Do you want to learn more about the History of Islam and Muslim Societies? Join as a patron/supporter on Patreon or Substack subscriber at the $5 level to join the course November-February: Islam and Muslim Societies, 550-1453, for an 8 session online course that includes free lectures posted on YouTube, Patreon, and Substack, and a special seminar meeting for discussion, q&a, reading and analysis of translated primary sources and texts for a more in depth and enriching experience interacting together. Sundays 1pmET Nov 15, 29; Dec 13, 27, 2026; Jan 10, 24; Feb 7, 21, 2027. What better on a cold winter Sunday than learning together! Space is limited for the seminar. Sign up: www.patreon.com/adnanhusain or  www.substack.com/@adnanahusain or www.buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain  Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.substack.com/@adnanahusain   Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: www.substack.com/@adnanahusain

  3. Nov 5

    OH 49- What Yemen teaches the world w/Isa Blumi

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!  Office Hours, home of the Radical Academy, will be open for a bonus weekend session on Sunday, Oct 18th at 10amET/7pm with the return of Middle East historian and scholar of Yemen, Dr. Isa Blumi of Stockholm University. In light of recent and fast developing events, it is important to update on the two part episode from last year with Dr. Blumi on Yemen's history of anti-imperialism. We'll discuss the current situation and refocus on anticolonial resistance and the broad basis of the Ansarallah movement. What can the people of Yemen teach us about our world and its future? These are decisive struggles taking place to define the shape of West Asia and beyond. Join us for an important opportunity to learn and benefit from a deeply erudite and knowledgeable historian of Yemen.  Are you interested in an online history course on the formation and foundations of Islam and Muslim societies? The course will cover the period from immediately before the rise of Islam to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and cover political, religious, social, cultural dimensions of "Islamicate societies". You can join the course as a $5/month subscriber on either patreon.com/adnanhusain or substack.com/@adnanahusain or make a one-time $20 contribution via buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain to attend the course starting Sunday, Nov. 15, 1pmET. Lectures will be posted for free on all platforms but if you want to go deeper, participate in discussion, have q&a, and examine and analyze primary sources, join the seminar discussion by becoming a paid supporter for the 8 sessions over 4 months: Nov 15, 29; Dec 13, 27; Jan 10, 24; Feb 7, 21. Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)!  www.patreon.com/adnanhusain  https://www.substack.com/@adnanahusain Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share!  Also available in video on YouTube:  https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: www.substack.com/@adnanahusain www.adnanhusain.org

  4. Oct 13

    OH 46-Yemen's Helpers of God w/Shireen Al-Adeimi

    Audio of YouTube Livestream! The Radical Academy returns with the 46th episode of the (almost) weekly Friday (usually!) livestream session of Office Hours. This week, Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi, a scholar at Michigan State University's College of Education, speaks with us about the extraordinary recent events in Yemen where the Ansarallah movement which governs nearly the entire populated districts of the country has taken steps to control the Bab al-Mandeb, resist the Saudi led blockade, and rout the remaining Saudi aligned and Saudi paid mercenaries. We'll learn more about the last decade of Yemen's history and the current situation geopolitically with a great guest and analyst. Join us 4:30pmET for Office Hours and a Guerrilla History Dispatch episode, bring your questions and comments! You can check out previous conversations with Dr. Al-Adeimi on Yemen with Guerrilla History: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-history-of-modern-yemen-the-struggle-against-zionist-imperialism-w-shireen-al-adeimi-rune-aldanmarki-agerhus https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/history-and-impacts-of-the-blockade-yemen-w-shireen-al-adeimi A double episode on this channel on the history of Yemen and its resistance to imperialism and colonialism with Dr. Isa Blumi will also be valuable: https://youtu.be/vWP4GHtGLqU?si=VpWLbK6fQmIAMEO2 https://youtu.be/LriA62pneJE?si=VptO0_RFa_wxoFSa Please support Rahima Foundation, the charitable food aid and other assistance providing organization in the Bay Area founded by my mother over 30 years ago to support refugees of America's imperial wars: https://rahima.org/donate Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.substack.com/@adnanahusain   Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: www.substack.com/@adnanahusain www.adnanhusain.org

  5. Oct 11

    OH 43- Racializing the Ummah w/Rhea Rahman

    Rhea Rahman joins the 43rd episode of Office Hours, a weekly Friday livestream, at its traditional 5pmET time to discuss her important recent book: Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians beyond black, Brown, and White (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2025). It is an ethnographic study of Islamic Relief a Muslim charitable organization,, examining Muslim transnational philanthropy networks, the structures of racial capitalism at work, and the possibilities and limits of its strategic positioning in response to Islamophobia. Challenging and critical, it presents a textured analysis of complex phenomeno of great importance to understanding our world. Join us with your comments and questions for another session of the Radical Academy, Friday Sept 11th, 5pmET. Dr. Rhea Rahman is assistant professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Please support our fundraiser for Rahima Foundation, a food aid and assistance organization in the South Bay Area started by my mom thirty odd years ago in our garage to help refugees settling in the area, mostly as a resut of US imperial wars: https://www.rahima.org/donate Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

  6. Sep 16

    Office Hours 42-Political Prisoners and the Black Radical Tradition w/Orisanmi Burton

    The Radical Academy is in session for an early edition, 9amET Fri Sept 4! Orisanmi Burton, a social anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate School and author of the profound study, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression and the Long Attica Revolt, joins Office Hours for a discussion of political prisoners, Black radical resistance movements, internationalism and anti-imperialist solidarity. We might have a chance also to talk about his new project that integrates Black Muslim militants thinkers and activists and think about aspects of the relationsip between the Black Radical tradition and socialism/Marxism. We will certainly have much to discuss about the importance of political prisoners in the imperial core and under settler colonial rule from the US to Palestine. Since the open letter addressed rhetorically in the Guardian to political prisoners in Iran and signed by many leading scholars, activists and even political prisoners, the question of the politics around prisoners and solidarity has come further to the fore. Without belaboring that particular controversy, now is an opportune time to learn about and from the experience of political prisoners and resistance. Join us with your questions and comments! You can buy Orisanmi's book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tip-of-the-spear/paper Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orisanmi_burton/ Please support our fundraiser for students in Gaza taking my online course, Guerrilla History: Anticolonial Resistance History, Theory, Practice, for materials and supplies for their final history research projects and the costs to support an in-person version of the course starting in September for displaced students from Gaza on the campus of the American University in Cairo: https://chuffed.org/project/174168-support-a-third-round-of-spocs-for-gaza Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available as audio podcast on all major platforms: https://adnanhusainshow.libsyn.com Also subscribe to the YouTube channel for regular livestreams: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

  7. Sep 13

    Names of God (9): al-Qadeer, "the All-Powerful"

    Adnan and Marc return with a discussion of a name or attribute, al-Qadeer or "the Powerful" or "All-Powerful", identified by `Afīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī in his work translated as "The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qur'an" by Yousef Casewit. Notably, the name al-Qadeer is not often included in the devotional tradition listing the "99 Names". As a result, we relied greatly on interpreting his discussion as the starting points for a conversation about understanding the sources of power and agency spiritually, theologically, psychically and, especially, phenomenologically. The discussion of al-Tilimsani was remarkably wide-ranging on different aspects of this issue of the nature of power and agency, including the varieties of forms of agency. We also explored how agency might manifest through the seeker's recognition and experience of "the Powerful" in a fascinating parable of the Sufi catching their cloak (presumably patched!) on a twig or branch as a metaphor for challenges, obstacles, the force of power upon us. Finally, we reflected on two different Qur'anic statements al-Tilimsani cites that opened a deeper consideration of the nature and meaning of power and its source. Whether we grasped the subtle distinction between the statement "All power belongs to God" (or as we also proposed, "power belongs to God wholly/completely/all together") on the one hand and "There is no power except through God," we must leave to listeners to ponder further. Every exploration of a distinguished name led us back to consideration of the unity of the Named, this time through a final suggestion of al-Tilimsani that apprehending and experience the unity and essence, "witnessing" it, the Names disappear and the witnesser is rendered "speechless." We were enriched by and grateful again for an opportunity to reflect together on the Names. Inshallah, you found something beneficial or resonant in our shared exploration. Again, we welcome your comments, queries, corrections in discussion of the video! Follow Marc's channel for additional supplemental videos on the topics of the series: @marcapplebaum8177 Also please support the fundraiser for Yara, a single woman living in a tent in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is currently trying to raise money for her mother's medical needs after heart surgery and support for her family of five: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RUNFTJSLC4YVW&fbclid=IwY2xjawR9pORleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFWZDg1M3FsdEtibjBWZm1Ec3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt5xsnU6Pdq2yaDuFN3S1G9gWUbekwvZfyV8WT8r8-ARiKcCIIADKxM1-_ey_aem_jWjpyM2qbCfKDkHbmWb8ww Support the show on Patreon or Substack, if you can (and get early access to episodes as well as full audio of all livestreams)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Rate and Review! Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org

  8. Sep 13

    Office Hours 41-Requiem for French Theory w/Gabriel Rockhill

    Full Audio of YouTube Livestream!!! The Radical Academy is in session for a continuing discussion with returning guest Gabriel Rockhill, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and author of numerous books, about the "Intellectual World War" and in particular the geopolitical economy of compatible left theory production in the imperial core. We discuss his new co-authored book, with Aymeric Monville, "Requiem for French Theory", from Monthly Review Press. It is a series of dialogues emerging from past sessions of The Critical Theory Workshop that engage a critique of structuralist, post-structuralist and postmodern French theory; contextualizes it in the global political economy of intellectual production; examines the consequences of its regressive and reactionary formulations as part of a broader "anticommunist cultural front"; and enjoins a revival of revolutionary praxis. It should be an interesting conversation on a very engaging and relevant short book and themes distilled from volume 1 of the "The Intellectual World War" series and extended to French theory in this digested fashion. Join us 4pmET Friday August 28 with your comments and questions. You can listen to/watch two previous episodes w/Gabriel, "The Imperial Theory Industry": https://youtu.be/Qz8rX6UEB2Q?si=xFKgdOxmdNNPCeWb and Office Hours 22-Western Marxism, https://www.youtube.com/live/6-okZ9MgvZE?si=s8QIXgzJWOIU9WMy "Requiem for French Theory" is available from Monthly Review Press: https://monthlyreview.org/9781685901509/ You can find out more about The Critical Theory Workshop: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/ Follow Gabriel Rockhill and learn about his work: https://gabrielrockhill.com/ Please support our fundraiser for students in Gaza taking my online course, Guerrilla History: Anticolonial Resistance History, Theory, Practice, for materials and supplies for their final history research projects and the costs to support an in-person version of the course starting in September for displaced students from Gaza on the campus of the American University in Cairo: https://chuffed.org/project/174168-support-a-third-round-of-spocs-for-gaza Thank you for supporting the program on Patreon as a paid member. Your support helps keep this content for political eduation free and available on YouTube for others who cannot afford to be paid members. You can also subscribe on substack: https://www.adnanahusain.substack.com Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available as audio podcast on all major platforms: https://adnanhusainshow.libsyn.com And YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain www.adnanhusain.org

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Professor Adnan Husain, historian and scholar of religion, hosts a show spanning history, politics, global affairs, intellectual culture, as well as religion and spirituality. The format ranges from scholarly guest interviews, panel discussions, recorded lectures, and his own readings and commentary.

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  • Creator
    Adnan Husain
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    97
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    Explicit
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    © 2025
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    The Adnan Husain Show

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