Firas Alkhateeb @khateeb88 Twitter profile

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

8 months

I recognize this highway! It’s built directly on the farmland of my grandparents’ village. The village they were ethnically cleansed from in 1948 by Israeli terrorist militias, causing them to live the next 70 years as refugees in poverty. Good luck with those sirens though!

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What happens when the sirens sound in Tel Aviv. This is the highway right at the airport.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

9 years

Does anyone know if the concentration camps Trump is planning for us Muslims will have WiFi?

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@khateeb88

6 months

Over the past 5 months, most young online Gazans have realized that the idea of western liberalism and rule of law was always a farce. For some reason Motaz hasn’t come to this realization yet. The West will never save us. It was never designed to.

MoTaz

@azaizamotaz9

6 months

I’m here at the White House. Would it make a difference? I don’t know but I’m trying my best even if my work was always behind the cameras. It’s not about me anymore, it’s about stopping this genocide by whatever it costs. Don’t forget you all to keep calling for a ceasefire

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

AOC just discovered Zakat.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

4 years

If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else that helps fund our infrastructure, hospitals, and public systems all at once. It could even be a modest % of what they earn every year. We could have an agency collect it and everything

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I humbly request your duaa for my father, who appears to be in his final days and hours.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

This needs to be shared. There’s a gaslighting movement among leftists to hijack Palestine and turn it into a nationalist/race/socialist/police violence narrative that erases Islam. The religion of the Beloved ﷺ will always be the focal point of Palestinians and Quds.

Salem Barahmeh

@Barahmeh

3 years

90,000 Palestinians pledge in unison to defend Al Aqsa and Jerusalem - a message of defiance that is reverberating around the world. Israel is suffocating Jerusalem, but Jerusalem finds a way to rise.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

There’s no better book covering the last century of Palestinian history than this.

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@khateeb88

2 years

My father Ibrahim Alkhateeb passed away yesterday. He spent a month in the ICU after being senselessly shot while driving. For anyone who happens to be in the Dallas-Ft Worth area, his janaza will be at Valley Ranch Islamic Center after the 1:45 jum'ah prayer tomorrow.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I’ve recommended it before, but this book is essential for understanding how the notion of caliphate fundamentally changed post-1258, as well as untangling the political, legal, and spiritual aspects of the Prophetic inheritance that were fundamentally split post-661.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

Please spare a duaa for my father who is in critical condition in the hospital. Thank you.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I can’t enjoy Lord of the Rings because nowhere in the fantasy world of Middle Earth is there any Palestinian Hanafi representation.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

9 months

Side note to the RIS shenanigans: emphasizing the whiteness of Hamza Yusuf is stupid, counter productive, & not in line with Islamic principles. He’s wrong on this issue because he’s wrong, not because he’s white. Some of you all need to stop essentializing whiteness into evil.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I usually never share anything personal on here, but I hope this may be of benefit. I buried my father one month ago. He and I never really had a relationship. The last time I saw him before he was shot was when I was 7 years old. As an adult I had tried to (1/4)

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I’m fully convinced that some of the big “red-pill” Muslim bloggers are agents with the goal of sowing discord in the Muslim community. I can’t think of any other explanation for that level of vitriolic evil that they spread regularly.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

This guy comes to UChicago, spends 6 years in classrooms with us studying the Islamic intellectual tradition, and then comes out repeating the same racist filth as the rest of them. To hell with you and all those who use our history as nothing more than a career stepping stone.

Elon ⚪

@hadithworks

10 months

@ZuhdAcolyte I apologize that we didn't put down our arms on oct 8th and allowed ourselves to be attacked again. If you want to support a holy war against us, one in which your guys are fighting behind human shields, do so, just don't expect us to not fight back. War is terrible.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

11 months

Never thought I’d see someone implicitly excuse Netanyahu’s genocidal racism by blaming Palestinians. I don’t know if this is a result of UAE money or if he actually believes the things he’s been saying. I’m not sure which option is worse.

Kim Iversen 🇺🇸

@KimIversenShow

11 months

What is jihad and what does it mean? “In Arabic, it literally means struggle. There is no holy war in Islam. There's nothing that says war is holy. War is actually the absence of holiness. War is the failure of holiness” @sh_hamzayusuf

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Can we stop with the “Israeli annexation is illegal according to international law” takes? That int. law you’re appealing to was created by Europeans that invented the imperialism Israel exercises. You don’t appeal to the oppressor’s framework to save you from the oppressor.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Can we stop with all the “omg why the silence from media/influencers/politicians on what’s happening in Jerusalem” hot takes? You should be very well aware by now that these people are not our allies. Last 10 days of Ramadan and y’all are out here chasing dunya to fix dunya.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

Someone should tell Zaytuna that Israel assassinated a professor of English literature. Maybe then America’s first Muslim liberal arts college will start to care about Palestinian life.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Twitter is a great platform for a lot of things. Meeting people with similar interests, coming across diverse communities, memes, etc. But 95% of the time, it absolutely is not the place to have any serious educational conversations. You want to learn, go read a book.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

11 months

This is indefensible. We're not Christians who believe in original sin. To claim that perhaps Allah is punishing Gazans because some Hijazis revolted 107 years ago is grossly irresponsible.

Anwar@Move to Muscat

@movetomuscat

11 months

Abdal Hakim Murad is basically saying that the Gazans are only suffering because they’ve upset God with their revolt against the Ottomans. I never imagined I’d call a guy as smart as Abdal Hakim dumb, but his words are just that, and they’re also pretty heartless. God doesn’t do

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

What the story of Malcolm X teaches is that if you really want to dismantle oppressive Western ideologies, you can’t just adopt another Western ideology to do it. All of today’s “unapologetic”/“authentic” activists use the same vocabulary & ideas as those they supposedly oppose.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

They spend decades trying to convince everyone that Islam is a barbaric death cult that indoctrinates kids to become murderous terrorists. Their every accusation is a confession.

Electronic Intifada

@intifada

10 months

🚨WATCH: Israeli children sing, "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza, against a background of destruction. Disturbing video was posted, then deleted by Israeli national broadcaster @kann_news . We captured it and added English subtitles FULL STORY:

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2 years

If you have a bad relationship with a parent, fix it before it’s too late. Trust me that there is nothing worth losing that relationship over. When the opportunity is gone, it’s gone forever and only the regret remains. Don’t make that mistake. (4/4)

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

I previously did not understand why the BDS movement insisted on a boycott of Israeli academia. I (generally) had previously had mostly cordial and respectful interactions with Israeli academics. I get it now. This war has made things much more clear.

Elon ⚪

@hadithworks

10 months

Dear Ramon Harvey, @RamonIHarvey Thank you for including my presentation titled “Using Biographical Data in Isnād-cum-matn Analysis” in the preliminary program for your upcoming international conference “Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies”

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 months

This woman is an embarrassment to Palestinians in so many ways. There is no power in token symbolic gestures as you sit in the very same halls that prosecute the genocide against your own people.

Rashida Tlaib

@RashidaTlaib

2 months

I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

There are many things old coins can tell us, particularly about Islamic political legitimacy and the idea of the caliphate. This Mughal coin was minted during the reign of Aurangzeb in 1692. Its inscription shows the problems with assuming a universal caliphate after 1258.🧵1/7

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

7 years

A bit of advice to younger adults seeking to make a difference in the world and stand up for what they believe is right: Don't. Mature. Publicly.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

This institution has made clear where they stand. Demonization of Palestinians as agents of their own destruction has softened into a meek “both sides are bad” faux intellectualism. I hope that UAE money is worth it.

Zaytuna College

@zaytunacollege

10 months

"May God bring peace and security to our brothers and sisters and the children of Gaza." - President Hamza Yusuf Read the 2023 President's Report online: .

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Spain.

Ismat Mangla

@ismat

4 years

OK. What's something that isn't Muslim but feels Muslim to you?

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Privelaged diaspora Palestinians have no right to lecture Muslims and tell them not to visit Palestine. Every time I’ve been to Palestine I’ve been asked to relay the message that they WANT Muslims to come visit them. They want people to see them first hand.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Part of the problem w/ many SJWs is that even though they’re keen on decolonization, the ultimate philosophical roots of their position are entirely European & come from the Enlightenment, so they’re impatient with sacred worldviews in any non-European culture. -Abdal Hakim Murad

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

I’m a huge fan of Peter Kreeft. His “Socratic Logic” is the textbook for my logic class at Darul Qasim. But as a visibly Muslim man I definitely can’t be seen reading this book in public. It’s great btw though. Go read it.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Israelis: Chanting insults towards the Prophet and Islam while terrorizing Muslims outside of al-Aqsa Palestinian liberals: tHiS iSn’T aBoUt ReLiGiOn

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@imraansiddiqi

3 years

Where were they radicalized?

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

9 months

Incredibly insulting for him to stand in front of that imagery and talk down to resistance like this. He has no shame.

إبراهيم

@_IbrahimK_

9 months

Hamza Yusuf, at RIS, reiterates that it's better for Palestinians to suffer silently!

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

Israel's PR is so laughably bad right now that the only logical conclusion is that their old PR team was captured on Oct. 7 and the guys in charge of the current Hasbara campaigns are the bench warmers who never thought they'd see any game time.

Barbara Kay

@BarbaraRKay

10 months

Also, Nazis "only" wanted Jews of Europe dead. Hamas's exterminationist ambitions are global.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

City I dislike: Dubai City I think is overrated: LA City I like: Chicago City I love: Istanbul City I feel most myself in: Jerusalem City I still need to visit: Lahore City I dream of living in: a farm

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 months

The leftist larping needs to pump the brakes. It didn’t work in the 70s and it won’t work now. Not to mention that Palestinian society is overwhelmingly not leftist in any sense of the word. Imposing failed socialist thought on the cause is just another form of imperialism.

The Palestinian Archive الأرشيف الفلسطيني

@palestinian_the

5 months

باسم الفدائي الذي يبدأ.. اقرأ

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Firas Alkhateeb

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5 years

Just got to reading this piece from @yaqeeninstitute . There's a lot in it regarding romanticization and historical misrepresentation of the caliphate that needs to be addressed. [Thread]

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Yearly reminder that Sunnis shouldn’t be gaslighted into apologizing for anything around Ashura. We’re not partisans of Yazid, never have been.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 months

I’ve also been preoccupied with Islamicate biomass lately. In particular this red oak/cherry hardwood table I built inspired by various architectural traditions. Seriously, 99% of you arguing on here need to get a life. Build something with your hands and get off the internet.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 months

Are we seriously still rehashing this old “Islam is whatever Muslims do” narrative? I thought we were past this.

GabrielSaidR

@GabrielSaidR

3 months

Folks say that Islam is always against images, especially paintings ("angels do not enter a house with a dog or a picture in it"), but here is the Umayyad palace of Quṣayr ‘Amra in Jordan.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

@ImranKhanPTI I'm very honored that you found some benefit in the book. I would love to have an opportunity to discuss with you Muslim history education as it relates to the Islamic sciences and Muslim civilization in general.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

Since this seems to have touched a nerve with caliphate twitter, here’s some important real history worth noting: 🧵

Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

This is the kind of garbage you put out to the world when your knowledge of history is Wikipedia-based.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Bit of advice for anyone thinking of applying to a MA or PhD program soon: Don’t do it unless you have a *very* robust emotional support system. Without my wife and kids I don’t know how I could have avoided getting sucked into the cycle of anxiety and depression most fall into.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

They continually attack Masjid al-Aqsa and worshippers within it, and now attempt to mock Muslims through the Quran. And some of y’all apologists still say this has nothing to do with religion.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

There’s letting your personal beliefs affect and guide your research (which is simply reality and applies to everyone). Then there’s this.

Khalil Andani, PhD

@KhalilAndani

3 years

Umayyad caliphs regards themselves as God’s caliphs and therefore superior to God’s Messengers including Muhammad himself.

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2 years

This is the kind of garbage you put out to the world when your knowledge of history is Wikipedia-based.

The Muslim Skeptic

@MuslimSkepticHQ

2 years

Muslims Have Been Missing This for Nearly 100 Years

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@khateeb88

4 years

This is ridiculous and inexcusable. A five minute search into any book of fiqh would show that the Hanafi school has NEVER allowed for the consumption of alcohol. This kind of trash research is why I constantly advise people to never take their dīn from Western academics.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Despite actively teaching or studying Islamic history over the past 11 years, I’ve somehow never managed to own an old Islamic coin. Starting up the collection now with this Umayyad dirham from the caliphate of Yazid II (r. 101-105 AH). #numismatics

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 months

In Fred Donner’s last class session he taught before retiring, I asked if he thinks any Hadith at all could be determined to come from the Prophet. He thought for a second and then said “Nope, I think they were pretty much all made up after the fact.”

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Islamic studies is full of people who utterly despise the subject matter. Some openly admit this.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

1 year

A lot of academics on here lost their minds when @JonathanACBrown wrote about Islam and blackness, propping themselves up as champions of oppressed minorities against supposed white supremacy. Those same people are silent about Palestinians. Unsurprising “mask off” moment.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

1 year

Take a time machine back to 2011. Basically every single Libyan in the West was begging for military intervention to remove Gaddafi. Simply blaming Obama or Western imperialism is a cop out that ironically denies Libyans any agency in their own story.

HAYDAR

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1 year

You know what would've really helped Libyans? A stable government and systems in place to mitigate the worst effects/ save lives. Only if you and your cronies hadn't eradicated their critical infrastructure and toppled their leader; leaving them to warring extremists and poverty.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Starting to build up the humanities section of the Anwar Shah Kashmiri Library at @DarulQasim

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

“It’s impossible for there to be victory through power, or wealth, or having multitudes of men.” Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, to the Ottoman grand vizier Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Paşa in 1691, when the Ottomans were at war against an alliance of powerful European empires.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

@joebradford My wife is a nurse and works overnight shifts. Her Ramadan hack has been to avoid fasting due to being either pregnant or breastfeeding for the past 5 years. Your mileage may vary.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

1 year

Liberalism alone never would have abolished slavery if industrialization and capitalism weren’t there and ready to pick up the slack. We need to stop just believing modernism’s talking points that it crafted for itself.

Mustafa Akyol

@AkyolinEnglish

1 year

I think we Muslims should ponder why political liberalism, initiated by thinkers like Locke, ultimately abolished slavery in the West. And why we didn't take Qur'an's call for "freeing a neck" (90:14) to end "Islamic slavery," which ended much belatedly with Western pressures.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

11 months

Don’t let those who have sold Palestine out to Zionist money now stand up and serve as the public face of the Muslim community. Figures like @WajahatAli and Haroon Moghul should show some semblance of shame and keep the word Gaza out of their mouths. Don’t platform these people.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

7 months

App development costs $128,000?? Granted I haven’t done any computer programming in 20 years, but this seems excessive. Also, assuming that the final product will be subscription-based, asking for donations to cover a business venture is quite strange.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi

@YasirQadhi

7 months

As-salāmu ʿalaykum all, This Ramadan I have a blockbuster announcement. We all know audio is the future. I am a big believer in embracing the future and adapting with the needs of the time. My team are launching Sawti – the world’s first Islamic audiobook app. I am

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Literally every time I’ve been to Palestine, actual Palestinians have told me to go back to the US and ask all Muslims to come visit them. Get out of here with this obnoxious nationalistic activism.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to have non-Muslim academics lecturing Muslims about what Islam *really* is as they attempt to drag us towards civilization & enlightenment. Nice to get back to traditions. And if you think this is directed at you, you may assume that it is.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

11 months

I will never understand appealing to the “international community”, the UN, the Arab League, any of it. You have to be profoundly ignorant of history to think salvation will come from the very entities that put us here and neglected us for decades.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 years

This new trend of young ostensible Islamic teachers with dubious training in the Islamic sciences is very troubling. Lots of 20-something kids being dubbed “ustādh” and “sidi” and going out and promoting themselves as pseudo-scholars.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

1 year

A lot of what we’re currently seeing is conflict over who has interpretive authority in Islam between a western academic model and a traditional model based on existing frameworks of theology and jurisprudence. 🧵

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I’m in Abu Dhabi and I can’t help but feel that Ibn Khaldun would have had a field day analyzing this country. Social and religious ‘asabiyya seems nonexistent here and rulership seems precariously balanced on a bread and circus capitalism.

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Firas Alkhateeb

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5 years

Having an advanced knowledge of Arabic, in the very least, is an absolutely non-negotiable part of being qualified to study and speak publicly about Islam. Translations into English simply don't give you nearly what you need. [Thread]

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

8 months

One like and this goes in my lecture on Muslim philosophy at UChicago tomorrow.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

7 months

Caliphate discourse every March 3rd. And absolutely no one has any idea what a caliphate is and which caliphate’s end they’re talking about. But it’s easier to live in a fantasy land where all the ummah’s problems can be laid at the feet of March 3, 1924.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

7 years

Just keep your head down, learn as much as you can, and don't get caught up in having an opinion on every controversy on social media. I wish someone had given me this advice a decade ago.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Theology debates on this app are far more about ego than they are about theology.

شرق‌زده sharghzadeh

@sharghzadeh

3 years

Muslim twitter exposing lay Muslims to medieval theology debates has been very damaging. In Muslim countries, you find pious people who don't know if they're asha'ri or maturidi, hanafi or shafi'i, and on here you see people takfiring each other over 1000-year old issues.

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@khateeb88

4 years

Only Euro-America could invent a social construct of blackness and then go around imposing it on people all over the world because it fits a new woke narrative.

Amnesty International

@amnesty

4 years

Black history must be recognised, celebrated and preserved. #BHM

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3 years

Seeing as twitter is losing its collective mind regarding artistic depictions of minarets, I figure it’s a good time to share some of my latest woodworking projects.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

I took this image, threw it in Photoshop to clean up/edit, then VCarve to program a carving file, then had a cnc carve it into a piece of cherry wood, then painted, sanded, and now I have a new addition to my coffee station.

Muhammed Danyâl

@_MD1453

10 months

A beautiful stanza on inviting others to enjoy the good moments and leave behind hardships, as written by Ottoman poet Veysî Bey: Come, the coffee has brewed Come, the foam is starting to overflow My day is pleasant, o friends The bad days will pass, come (We still prefer tea)

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Firas Alkhateeb

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There's academic activists who built careers for themselves through studying & representing minorities in Muslim history: Armenians, black Africans, Yazidis, etc. They're silent now. They were never about standing up for the oppressed. Their aims were always much more cynical.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

The not-so-subtle Islamophobia among many activists needs to be called out. Every Palestinian narrative under the sun is being amplified and celebrated but the piety-minded approach is constantly being told to take a back seat.

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@khateeb88

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I have never once seen a kalām discussion on this bird app that had any benefit to anyone besides the egos of those involved. There’s a place for academic discussions. This isn’t it.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

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Whenever a heterodox idea/person is in the limelight for a minute, there’s a cohort of non-Muslim academic who tweet threads about “acktshually, X isn’t un-Islamic at all, here’s why…” You don’t get a say on what’s Islamic and what isn’t it if you aren’t part of the community.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

The Sufi vs Orthodox Sunni false dichotomy is crippling to peoples' understanding of the Islamic tradition. There's no excuse for academic writing that frames an entire understanding of historical events around this false narrative.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

I would give anything to go back to the day before he was shot and just have one normal conversation with him. There was pain and regret, but that multiplied a hundred fold the moment he took his last breath and any opportunity was lost. (3/4)

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

This dude’s audacity is at comical levels now.

Dr. Craig Considine

@CraigCons

2 years

A misconception regarding Ahmadi Muslims is that they are “non-Muslims.” Let us look at the facts. Ahmadis: ✅ Follow the Qur’an ✅ Believe in Prophet Muhammad as the “Seal of the Prophets” ✅ Believe in the 5 Pillars of Islam ✅ Follow the 6 Articles of Faith Know your facts.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 years

Alhamdulillah. Finally got to see my book printed. InshAllah people appreciate the effort I put into it. http://t.co/c4wiLu9wBV

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

build some kind of relationship with him over email, but it never got anywhere. Ego & anger stood in the way. By the time I saw him again it was too late to have a conversation with him. The regret I have over that missed opportunity to mend thing with him is enormous. (2/4)

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 months

The idea that after 6 months of genocide there are still people on the fence to be “won over” is laughable. It’s so divorced from reality as to make you wonder if this hot take is disingenuous in the first place. (Hint: it is).

Dr. Abdullah Ali

@BinhamidAli

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Not the way to win over people. You’re a guest someone’s home and then claim the right to stay and deliver a political message despite being told you’re no longer welcome.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 years

Every Muslim on the internet needs to take a one year sabbatical during which everyone studies basic Arabic, 'aqida, and logic. Then maybe we can all come back and have productive conversations. The "The Muslim Tradition says..." hot takes lately have been insufferable.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

1 year

Apparently I haven’t been teaching history at Darul Qasim for the past 6 years? 🤷‍♂️

Mr. Terron Poole

@Back2daM00N

1 year

"You’re not taught history in any Islamic Seminary." - Dr. Yasir Qadhi From the Thinking Muslim Podcast:

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Hot take: if we obsess over reverting places of worship to their status “before” conquest, then almost every house of worship will have to become a temple to a Greek or Roman idol. Stop imposing modernist European frameworks on everything.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

7 months

This is an easy one. The Reconquista resulted in the permanent loss of Muslim control in Iberia. The Mongol conquests led to the Islamicization of 3 out of 4 Mongol khanates & a fascinating period of intellectual reconciliation between Mongol & Middle Eastern political theory.

بدر الدين

@D1mashqi

7 months

What was worse, the Mongol invasion or losing al-Andalus?

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Thread/ When certain segments of the Muslim Twittersphere constantly bemoan "well why aren't the ʿulemāʾ calling out XYZ? I have to do it myself!", they don't understand the big picture. The job of the scholars isn't to be reactionaries, responding to every minute transgression.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 years

Very excited to finally be able to dive into this.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

9 months

@AsadFromNYC I wouldn’t exactly uphold Lebanon as a great example of something to aspire to in general. It’s far from a religious utopia.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

3 years

Every now and then I’m reminded that some non-Muslim academics take it upon themselves to declare what the “correct” reading of certain words in the Qur’ān is. It sounds like a parody of white savior complex but it somehow isn’t.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

This is a very cool idea. Can be especially useful for madrasa students, since many of the scholars they study have very bare wiki pages or none at all.

Nikos Bosse

@nikosbosse

2 years

If you are teaching a course and your students have to write an assignment - let them write a Wikipedia article instead!

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

Yes, because when I think of compassion and valuing life, I always think of the UAE. The propaganda machine is in full swing.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 months

It's very strange to me to be surprised by this. The very foundation of the modern liberal order we inhabit was built on subjecting Africans and Native Americans to a sub-human form of existence. 🧵

Shadi Hamid

@shadihamid

4 months

Some people are just unable to feel the same kind of empathy for Palestinians as they would for other human beings. This fact has been of the most difficult things for me to make sense of since the Gaza war began.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 years

This analogy is fantastically inappropriate. Unions operate to protect workers against capitalist exploitation from the wealthy. To put the Creator in that position is utmost disrespect and an entirely unbefitting understanding of that miraculous episode of the Prophet’s ﷺ life.

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

4 years

“The command is given for fifty prayers, but after his friend Moses convinces him to negotiate with God and lower the number, it is reduced to five, which remain central to Islam today. One can say that Moses and Muhammad were the first union organizers.”

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

2 years

This is a public service announcement. Go to the Maldives.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

4 months

The irony or responding with this, as if Salahuddin wasn’t literally a scholar himself. He gets one of the longest chapters in Subki’s Tabaqat. Not to mention that the Zengid/Ayyubid revival owed its foundation to the work of al-Ghazali and Abdul Qadir Jilani decades earlier.

Soley

@NeuroSoley

4 months

@khateeb88 Yes, "academic foundation"

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

5 years

More evidence (as if it is needed) that Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya is a horrible publisher. Top is from the 1872 Yahya Efendi Matbaasi edition of Molla Fenari's "Fuṣūl al-Badāʾiʿ fī Uṣūl al-Sharāʾiʿ". Bottom is from the 2006 DKI edition of the text. An inexcusable mistake.

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Firas Alkhateeb

@khateeb88

10 months

My grandfather would drive a truck from Yafa to Jerusalem every morning to deliver oranges before ‘48. The last time I was in Palestine I drove from Jerusalem to Yafa in an hour. Gaza or Haifa were another hour away. The potential is there when the oppression is removed.

Eman Abdelhadi

@emanabdelhadi

10 months

One day, it will be easy for anyone of any religion or ethnicity to drive from Jerusalem to Gaza just to have a picnic by the sea. No checkpoints, no special documents, no tanks, no guns, no border walls. That's the promise of a Free Palestine.

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