Certificate · Intellectual Tradition

After Modernity

What comes after the modern world? Explore competing visions of knowledge, society, and human flourishing in an age of global crisis.

What this course gives you

A working command of the vocabulary of Islamic metaphysics — wujūd, māhiyya, the gradation of being — used precisely, not loosely.

The capacity to read primary texts of Ibn Sīnā and Mullā Ṣadrā with comprehension rather than reverence alone.

An understanding of why the tradition treats metaphysics as the science of realities — and what that claim asks of the knower.

Direct exchange with Professor Nasr in open Q&A after every session — the part no book can replace.

The eight weeks

A syllabus, not a playlist.

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Your instructor
Muhammad Faruque

University of Cincinnati, Director of Academic Affairs at the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies, and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University

Syed Farid Alatas

Professor of Sociology