Hasan Spiker
Metaphysics and Modernity Research Program
Hasan Spiker is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Metaphysics and Modernity Research Program. He is a philosopher and second-generation Anglo-American Muslim, who spent twelve years studying the Islamic intellectual sciences in the Muslim world, primarily under the guidance of the Iraqi scholar, al-Sayyid Qusayy Abu’l Si’d. He subsequently obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of London (First Class Honours), and an MPhil in philosophical theology from the University of Cambridge (Distinction, recipient of a Faculty Prize for examination performance), at which latter university he continues to carry out his doctoral research.
Major Works
Things as they are: Nafs al-Amr and the metaphysical foundations of objective truth. Tabah Research, 2021.
Hierarchy & freedom: An examination of some classical metaphysical and post-Enlightenment accounts of human autonomy. New Andalus Press, 2023.
The unravelling of intelligibility: Elements of modernity (Vol. 1). New Andalus Press, 2024.