Introduction to Avicennian philosophy
This course offers a structured introduction to Avicennian (mashshaʾī) philosophy through close reading of Athīr al-Dīn Abharī’s Hidāyat al-ḥikma. We examine its treatment of logic, natural philosophy, and metaphysics, focusing on core Avicennian doctrines such as the nature of bodies and their properties, living beings, and divine matters, while situating the text within its broader intellectual and theological context.
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Introduction to Avicennian theology
This course will be based on readings (with English translations) of the Arabic text of Ibn Sina’s Throne Philosophy (Al-Hikma al-‘Arshiyya). In it, we will explore the foundational concepts of Avicennian theology, seeking to understand his unique perspectives on God's existence, attributes, and actions.
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Introduction to Māturīdī kalām
This is a course on Māturīdī thought, the dominant school of Sunni theology in Central Asia (historical Khurasan and Transoxiana). We will explore Māturīdī doctrines through careful reading sessions of Nūr al-Dīn's Sābūnī's 'Primer on the principles of religion ' (Al-Bidāya fī Usūl al-Dīn).
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Readings of Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, Book 1
This course offers guided reading sessions on Book I of Ibn Sīnā’s Canon of Medicine, one of the most influential medical works in both the Islamic world and Latin West. Focusing on key teaching sections, we examine Ibn Sīnā’s definition of medicine, its foundational principles, methods, and objects of inquiry, as he systematically lays out the theoretical basis of the medical science.
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Seminar on Khafrī’s Glosses on Tajrīd
This seminar is devoted to close readings of 'Glosses on the Commentary on the Tajrīd' by the philosopher Shams al-Dīn Khafrī’ (d. 1535). In it, we examine Khafrī's refined analyses of central issues in philosophical theology - such the existence of God and the divine attributes - as they are treated by the kalām and ḥikma approaches respectively.
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Universal principles in Islamic philosophy
This course explores Dināni’s 'Universal Principles in Islamic Philosophy', focusing on the most general metaphysical truths discussed and debated among Muslim thinkers. These principles concern, among other things, ontology, modality, essentialism, and aitiology. Readings in each chapter will engage Avicennan and post-Avicennan accounts.
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Critical readings of Sharḥ al-Iṣfahāniyya
These sessions offer critical readings of Ibn Taymiyya’s Sharḥ al-Iṣbahāniyya, focusing on his critique of the philosophical proof for tawḥīd advanced by Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā. We closely examine the Taymiyyan objections, their motivations, and related issues, responding to them from within the Farabian–Avicennian (mashshaʾī) tradition in order to clarify the philosophers’ account of divine unity.
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