ACADEMICS

Lectures

Why Poetry in Sufism? From Courtly Motifs to Mystical States

Professor Bilal Orfali

April 8, 2026

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

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

October 24, 2025

1 HOUR