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Ep. 079 - Saaleh Baseer - An Ivy League/Madrassa Fusion

Sultans and Sneakers

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The Importance of Reading and Writing

I think it was just an approach to a world of Islam. An approach to the world of post-classical Islam, because everyone's always talking about how Islam ended during the sack of Baghdad. Whereas I was like, and because I had this training and traditional mother's, I knew what feck looked like. So it was just to sort of be transported to those moments was something so elevating. And I feel like really deepened my experience with the tradition. In ways that the mother said to not. Okay. So I guess where does the mother then do come in for you? Yeah. It's actually so wild how everything turns out.

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