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{{short description|British Islamic scholar and philosopher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox
| title            = Hasan Spiker
| label1           = Hometown
| data1            = [[Cambridge, United Kingdom]]
| label2           = Nationality
| data2            = British, American
| label3           = Languages
| data3            = English, Arabic
| label4           = Religion
| data4            = [[Islam]]
| label5           = Branch
| data5            = [[Sunni]]
| label6           = Creed
| data6            = [[Ash'ari]]
| label7           = Movement
| data7            = [[Islamic neo-traditionalism]], [[Akbarism]]
| label8           = Main interest(s)
| data8            = [[Epistomology]], [[metaphysics]], [[Islamic philosophy]], [[Western philosophy]], [[Modern thought]], [[Secularism]], [[Aqidah]], [[Sufism]], [[Platonism]]
| label9           = Alma matter
| data9            = 
* [[University of London]]
* [[University of Cambridge]]
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'''Hasan Spiker''' {{IPA|[ħasan spaɪkər]}} is an [[Americans in Britain|Anglo-American]] philosopher, lecturer, author and writer. His scholarship and thought focuses on the comparative study of [[Islam|Islamic]], [[Ancient Greek philosophy|Greek]], and [[Modern philosophy|Modern thought]]..<ref name="Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College">{{cite web |first1= |title=Authors: Hasan Spiker |url=https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/authors/hasan-spiker |access-date=26 July 2024 |website=[[Zaytuna College]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Zakaria |date=2020-12-09 |title=Workshop: Platonism and a Muslim-Christian Metaphysics Across Borders |url=https://tabahresearch.org/en/event-posts/workshop-platonism-and-a-muslim-christian-metaphysics-across-borders/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=Tabah Research |language=en-US}}</ref> His work has included discussions on [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], Islamic theology and [[Kalam]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hasan Spiker Presents Original Research in Ottoman Kalam Conference |url=https://tabahresearch.org/en/newsitems/hasan-spiker-presents-original-research-in-ottoman-kalam-conference/ |website=Tabah Research |date=January 26, 2016}}</ref>, Muslim scholars such as [[Ibn Arabi]] and [[Ibn Sina]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maşuk Aktaş |first1=M. |date=June 30, 2021 |title=Hasan Spiker. Things as They Are: Nafs al-amr and the Ontological Foundations of Objective Truth |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/divan/issue/64123/961142 |journal=Divan: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies |language=Turkish |volume=26 |issue=50 |pages=247–252}}</ref>, as well as global and Western politics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Usul Academy - Faculty |url=https://www.usul.academy/faculty |access-date=27 July 2024 |website=usul.academy |publisher=Usul Academy (Lombard, IL)}}</ref> His public lectures, courses and academic work have made him one of the most influential British Muslims in the modern era, contributing to the development of new philosophical theology in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Birt |first1=Yahya |title=Learning the mark of the Muslim: Britain's three waves of conversion to Islam |url=https://www.newarab.com/features/learning-britains-three-waves-conversion-islam |website=newarab.com |publisher=The New Arab |date=March 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Being Muslim in the Modern University - What is an Islamic approach to knowledge? Understanding the pursuit of ilm Speaker: Sidi Hasan Spiker |url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/being-muslim-in-the-modern-university/ |website=ihrc.org.uk |publisher=Islamic Human Rights Commission |location=Cambridge University Islamic Society, Cambridge UK. |date=November 3, 2019}}</ref> He is a proponent of the mystic [[Akbarism]] school of metaphysics.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mihirig |first1=Abdurrahman |title=A Critical Review of Hasan Spiker's "Things as They Are: The Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth" |url=https://themaydan.com/2023/03/a-critical-review-of-hasan-spikers-things-as-they-are-the-metaphysical-foundations-of-objective-truth/ |website=Maydan |date=March 30, 2023}}</ref>

== Biography ==

=== Youth ===
Born to Anglo-American parents who converted to [[Islam]] in the 1970s and helped form some of the first [[Sufi]] communities in Britain<ref>{{cite web |title=RETHINKING ISLAM AND THE WEST SEMINAR: MIZAN AND THE NARRATIVE OF ISLAM |url=https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/rethinking-islam-and-the-west-seminar-mizan-and-the-narrative-of-islam/ |website=bradfordlitfest.co.uk |publisher=Bradford Literature Festival |access-date=26 July 2024}}</ref>, he was raised Muslim, spending most of his childhood in  [[Cambridge, United Kingdom]] before moving to [[New Mexico]]. He later spent twelve years living in several Middle Eastern countries including Jordan and Syria, where he pursued traditional education in the [[Islamic sciences]] under local scholars and completed his memorization of the [[Quran]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview: Hasan Spiker |url=https://qawwam.online/interview-hasan-spiker/ |website=Qawwam Magazine   |access-date=26 July 2024 |date=January 30, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Spiker |first1=Hasan |title=Things as They Are |publisher=Tabah Foundation |isbn=978-9948-8607-4-7 |page=About the Author |edition=classification of the sciences project tabah papers series number 2}}</ref>

=== Education ===
Spiker completed a degree in philosophy at the [[University of London]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spiker |first1=Hasan |title=Things as They Are |publisher=Tabah Foundation |isbn=978-9948-8607-4-7 |page=About the Author |edition=classification of the sciences project tabah papers series number 2}}</ref> He subsequently earned his [[MPhil]] from the [[University of Cambridge]] where he is currently pursuing his doctoral research, studying [[Plotinus]]' critique of [[Aristotle]] on the topic of divine "[[Immanentism]] and Exemplarism".<ref>{{cite web |title=Hasan Spiker |url=https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/Spiker-Hasan |website=University of Cambridge |date=9 October 2019 |publisher=Faculty of Divinity |access-date=26 July 2024 |ref=Directory}}</ref>

==Academic career==
Spiker joined [[Tabah Foundation]]’s ‘Classification of the Sciences’ project (2014-2022). In 2022, he lectured at [[Zaytuna College]], and by 2023, he became a faculty member at Usul Academy, a private Islamic college located in [[Lombard, IL]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usul.academy/faculty|title=Faculty: Usul Academy|access-date=2023-10-12}}</ref>. In 2024, he published ''Hierarchy and Freedom''; which invited debate in scholarly circles on metaphysics.

Spiker represented Tabah Foundation at the Ottoman Kalam Conference in Istanbul in 2019, presenting on Ottoman theologian Ibn Bahāʾuddīn, merging mystical elements from the school of [[Ibn Arabi]] with developed Kalam<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tabahfoundation.org/en/portfolio-item/hasan-spiker-presents-original-research-in-ottoman-kalam-conference/|title=Hasan Spiker Presents Original Research in Ottoman Kalam Conference: Tabah Foundation|access-date=2023-10-12}}</ref>. On 9 March 2022, he delivered a talk on Islam and Modernity at Keynes Hall, King’s College, University of Cambridge<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tabahfoundation.org/en/newsitems/tabah-foundation-delivered-a-talk-on-islam-and-modernity/|title=Tabah Foundation Delivered a Talk on Islam and Modernity|access-date=2023-10-12}}</ref>

== Publications ==

==== Books ====
* ''Things as They Are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth'' (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Research, 2021).<ref>{{cite book |last=Spiker |first=Hasan |date=2021 |title=Things as They are |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xE5zzgEACAAJ |publisher=Tabah Research |isbn=978-9948-8607-4-7 }}</ref> <!-- please add ISBN and language of text if available -->
* ''The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics'' (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Research, 2022).<ref>{{cite book |last=Spiker |first=Hasan |date=2022 |title=The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cm4QoAEACAAJ |publisher=Tabah Research |isbn=978-9948-16-655-9 }}</ref> <!-- please add ISBN and language of text if available -->
* ''Hierarchy and Freedom: An examination of some classical metaphysical and post-Enlightenment accounts of human autonomy'' (Cambridge: New Andalus, 2023).<ref>{{cite book |last=Spiker |first=Hasan |date=2023 |title=Hierarchy and Freedom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1GpzwEACAAJ |publisher=New Andalus Press |isbn=979-8-218-14747-1 }}</ref> <!-- please add ISBN and language of text if available -->
==== Articles ====
* ''Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature'', published on renovatio.zaytuna.edu on August 7, 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spiker |first1=Hasan |title=Transgenderism and the Violation of Our Angelic Nature |url=https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/transgenderism-and-the-violation-of-our-angelic-nature |website=renovatio.zaytuna.edu |publisher=Renovatio |access-date=26 July 2024 |date=August 7, 2023}}</ref> <!-- please add ISBN and language of text if available -->
* ''The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims'', published on muslimmatters.org, 20 November 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spiker |first=Hasan |date=2023-11-20 |title=The Terminal Hypocrisy Of A Crumbling West And The Dawning Of A New Age for Muslims |url=https://muslimmatters.org/2023/11/20/the-terminal-hypocrisy-of-a-crumbling-west/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=MuslimMatters.org |language=en-US}}</ref> <!-- please add ISBN and language of text if available -->

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite AV media|url=https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrszbTqRYx2jGPscZZvl6kUN94P%20cTg%20M&si=Gj6yVauCmJdhLnJt |title=A Course on Comparative Metaphysics - YouTube}}

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