Mohsen Goudarzi: What Did the Earliest Muslim Worship Look Like? What do Din, Islam, and Hanif mean?

In this interview I chat with Professor Mohsen Goudarzi of Harvard University. Mohsen Goudarzi is currently assistant professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School, prior to that he taught at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is an expert in Qur'anic Studies and his scholarship is leading to the reevaluation of some of the most fundamental assumptions previously held in the study of the Qur’an.

In this chat we discuss words like Din, Islam, and Hanif in the Qur’an and their original cultic meaning. Dr. Goudarzi traces the development of these words and presents what he thinks to be their earliest and most fundamental usage. This is a fascinating discussion so be sure to watch all the way through!

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Dr. Goudarzi’s article on this topic: https://doi.org/10.1086/723646