Modern Misreadings of Mystical Commentaries on Hafez
FALL 2025 Lecture Series
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Being and Consciousness
September 5, 2025 - 12:00PM (EST) - 1 hour
Carl Ernst
Modern Misreadings of Mystical Commentaries on Hafez
September 10, 2025 - 7:00PM (EST) - 1 hour
Asma Afsaruddin
An Islamic Ethics of War and Peace
September 17, 2025 - 12:00PM (EST) - 1 hour
Shawkat Toorawa
Rhyme’s Reason: Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features
September 24, 2025 - 10:00AM (EST) - 1 hour
Abdallah Rothman
What is “Islamic” about "Islamic Psychology?
October 1, 2025 - 11:30AM (EST) - 1 hour
Maria Dakake
The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an
October 8, 2025 - 12:00PM (EST) - 1 hour
Mahmut Erol Kılıç
Multiple Degrees of Being in Sufism: An Interpretive Tool for Religious Understanding
October 15, 2025 - 12:00PM (EST) - 1 hour
Peter Adamson
From Ibn Sina’s Necessary Existent to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s God
October 24, 2025 - 10:00AM (EST) - 1 hour
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.
Carl W. Ernst is one of the most influential scholars of Islam and Sufism in the English-speaking world. His research has transformed contemporary understanding of Islamic intellectual and spiritual traditions through pioneering studies of Sufism, Indo-Muslim culture, and the history of Islam in South Asia. Combining rigorous philological scholarship with a commitment to public understanding, Professor Ernst’s writings have challenged simplistic representations of Islam while illuminating the richness and diversity of Muslim intellectual and spiritual life across centuries and cultures.
