The Power of Narrative

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Welcome to Episode Thirty One of the Middle Ground Podcast. We’re your hosts Imām Marc and brother Dawud Aleman. Narratives. They're everywhere and it seems that everyone has one or at least they're trying to sell you one. But what is it? And why should Muslims have one?

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Other references in this episode:

* Qur’ān 28: 41: “We made them leaders inviting ˹others˺ to the Fire. And on the Day of Judgment they will not be helped”

* Shaykh Muḥammad Abū Zahrah on the importance of developing Muslim thought (X).

* David Levering Lewis’ article on American exceptionalism: Exceptionalism’s Exceptions - The Changing American Narrative (PDF).

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