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How to Frame AI: Rethinking Intelligence and Technology

Prof. Dr. Omar Nasim

Islamic Psychology as Spiritual Wayfaring (suluk)

Dr. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre

Is Existence a Real Predicate?

Professor Sajjad Rizvi

Living Together: Christians and Muslims under Fāṭimid Rule

Professor Nuha Alshaar

The Light Verse of the Qur'an

Professor Bilal Kuşpınar

Biblical Women in the Quran: A Retelling

Professor Hadia Mubarak

The Humanities and Social Sciences are Dead without Metaphysics

Professor Caner Dagli

Reading and Becoming Human through Adab

Dr. Sarah bin Tyeer

The Path of Muhammadan Love

Professor William C. Chittick

Why Poetry in Sufism? From Courtly Motifs to Mystical States

Professor Bilal Orfali

Muslims and Decolonial Thought

Professor Syed Farid Alatas

Damned Women and Villainesses in the Qur’an

Dr. Celene Ibrahim

Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.

Professor Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Al-Andalus and the Present: History and Emotions

Professor Maribel Fierro

Kalām, Ḥikma, and Sufism — The Three ‘Trunks’ of Philosophy in Islam

Professor Frank Griffel

The Path of Radical Love: ‘Ishq as both Divine and Human

Professor Omid Safi

Rumi’s Poetic Thinking and the Will to Love

Professor Sayeh Meisami

The Islamic Studies Toolkit: Graduate School and Career Strategies

Professor Mohammed Rustom

Being and Consciousness

Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Modern Misreadings of Mystical Commentaries on Hafez

Professor Carl W. Ernst

An Islamic Ethics of War and Peace

Professor Asma Afsaruddin

Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features

Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa

What is “Islamic” about Islamic Psychology?

Dr. Abdallah Rothman

The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity

Professor Maria Massi Dakake

Multiple Degrees of Being in Sufism

Professor Mahmut Erol Kılıç

Ibn Sina and al-Razi on God

Professor Peter Adamson

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News

April 24, 2026

TIAIS 2026 Article Prize Winner

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April 9, 2026

Event in Leiden to Celebrate Islamic Intellectual Traditions

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March 25, 2026

TIAIS’ Director of Academic Affairs Awarded Prestigious Sustainability Prize

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Islamic Metaphysics

Islamic Cosmology

What is Love?

The Vision of Islam

The Islamic Studies Toolkit: Graduate School and Career Strategies

SPRING 2027

FALL 2026

How to Frame AI: Rethinking Intelligence and Technology

Islamic Psychology as Spiritual Wayfaring (suluk)

Is Existence a Real Predicate?

Living Together: Christians and Muslims under Fāṭimid Rule

The Light Verse of the Qur'an

Biblical Women in the Quran: A Retelling

The Humanities and Social Sciences are Dead without Metaphysics

Reading and Becoming Human through Adab

SPRING 2026

The Path of Muhammadan Love

Why Poetry in Sufism? From Courtly Motifs to Mystical States

Muslims and Decolonial Thought

Damned Women and Villainesses in the Qur’an

Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.

Al-Andalus and the Present: History and Emotions

Kalām, Ḥikma, and Sufism — The Three ‘Trunks’ of Philosophy in Islam

The Path of Radical Love: ‘Ishq as both Divine and Human

Rumi’s Poetic Thinking and the Will to Love

The Islamic Studies Toolkit: Graduate School and Career Strategies

FALL 2025

Being and Consciousness

Modern Misreadings of Mystical Commentaries on Hafez

An Islamic Ethics of War and Peace

Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features

What is “Islamic” about Islamic Psychology?

The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity

Multiple Degrees of Being in Sufism

Ibn Sina and al-Razi on God

News

TIAIS 2026 Article Prize Winner

Event in Leiden to Celebrate Islamic Intellectual Traditions

TIAIS’ Director of Academic Affairs Awarded Prestigious Sustainability Prize

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