Draft:Hasan Spiker

Hasan Spiker is a philosopher, Islamic scholar, and comparative scholar of Islamic, Greek, and modern thought, known for advocating a revival of Akbarism in Muslim philosophical discourse.

Education
Spiker dedicated twelve years to the Islamic sciences in the Middle East under al-Sayyid Quṣayy Abū al-Siʿd. He then moved to the UK, earned his MPhil at the University of Cambridge and initiated his doctoral research on "Immanentism and Exemplarism: Plotinus's critique of Aristotle and his 'so-called substance' in VI. 1-3" under Douglas Hedley.

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.

Philosophical thought
His inquiries span Islamic, Greek, and modern philosophy, exploring intersections within Muslim theology, Avicennan philosophy, and experiential metaphysics among other themes.

Conferences and presentations
Spiker represented Tabah Foundation at the Ottoman Kalam Conference in Istanbul, presenting on Ottoman theologian Ibn Bahāʾuddīn, merging mystical elements from the school of Ibn Arabi with developed Kalam. On 9th March 2022, he delivered a talk on Islam and Modernity at Keynes Hall, King’s College, University of Cambridge.

Leadership in philosophical theology
He, along with Ramon Ibrahim Harvey and Rebecca Masterton, is recognized for contributing to the development of a new philosophical theology in the UK. In 2024, he published Hierarchy and Freedom which caused a rally in metaphysical interest amongst Muslim scholars.

Published works

 * Things As They Are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Foundation, 2021).
 * The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics (Abu Dhabi: Tabah Foundation, 2022).
 * Hierarchy and Freedom: An examination of some classical metaphysical and post-Enlightenment accounts of human autonomy (Cambridge: New Andalus, 2023).