Sacred Footsteps - The Podcast

About Sacred Footsteps - The Podcast

Sacred Footsteps is dedicated to travel, history and culture from a Muslim perspective. We talk to writers, historians, artists and others, about travel as a spiritual practice, and discuss aspects of Muslim culture and history that are often overlooked.

Publisher

Sacred Footsteps

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jul 2018

Latest episode

20 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jan 2025

   The Reintroduction of Metaphysics | Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās

   A discussion on the need to reintroduce metaphysics based upon the Islamic conception of reality and truth, a prominent theme found in the works of Professor Syed Naquib al-Attas. With Zain al-Haddad and Syed Muḥiyuddīn al-Attas.

2. 

   15 Oct 2024

   Islam in the Malay World | Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās

   Islam arrived in the Malay world through “good word” and quickly established itself though various kingdoms that would later become centres of learning. Zain al-Haddad speaks to Syed Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās about the major Muslim figures in the Malay world and the development of an indigenous Islamic scholarship which was nevertheless rooted in networks of authenticated scholarly chains across the centuries.

3. 

   30 Jun 2024

   The Eradication of Islamic Epistemology | Prof Joseph Lumbard

   The Islamic sciences were once rooted in an underlying epistemic unity, that existed among all fields of the knowledge in the Islamic world. Zara talks to Professor Joseph Lumbard about his paper Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty (https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/4/406). They discuss: the eradication of the Islamic epistemic framework, the adoption of modern secular-epistemic models, and the complicity of some Muslim academics in this. Professor Lumbard also explains the need to reinstate the position of tasawuf (purification of the soul) in Islamic intellectual discourse.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

57,236

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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