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• Core Text: Majlis I - Bayān al-NiyyahLetter to a Disciple (Ayyuhā 'l-Walad)Abū Ḥāmid al-GhazālīAuditing intentions, breaking intellectual conceit, and bridging classical knowledge (ʿilm) with transformational action (ʿamal).Dimension I · Theme I
• Jaariyah Readings · Reader IIThe Philosopher Responds (Al-Hawāmil wa-l-Shawāmil)Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī & Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh105 searching questions on mind, peer envy, hope versus delusion, and character formation from 10th-century Baghdad.Dimension I & II · Theme I
• Core Ethics & Governance TextNahj al-Balāghah (Peak of Eloquence)Compiled by Sharīf al-Radī / Trans. Sayyid Amjad H. Shah NaqaviMasterpieces of sermons, letters, and maxims by Imam Ali, featuring foundational paradigms on justice, ego, and the duties of rulers.Dimension I & III · Theme I
• Majlis II: Values-Based DecisionsStudies in Usul al-FiqhIyad HilalA structured introduction to Islamic legal theory, legal derivation methodology, and epistemological coherence.Dimension II · Theme I
• Epistemology Deep-DiveThe Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahāfut al-Falāsifah)Abū Ḥāmid al-GhazālīDeconstructing Hellenistic philosophical premises, establishing epistemological boundaries, and defending revelation.Dimension II · Theme I
• Decision FrameworksDisagreements of the Jurists (Ikhtilāf Uṣūl al-Madhāhib)Al-Qāḍī al-NuʿmānExploring classical legal pluralism, navigating divergence of opinion, and practicing intellectual humility.Dimension II · Theme I
• Orientation & HistoriographyWhy History Matters? Reviving Faith Through the Lens of HistoryYakoob AhmedUsing historical inquiry as an active diagnostic tool for faith renewal, identity, and institutional health.Dimension II · Theme I
• Foundational SurveyA Short History of Islamic ThoughtFitzroy MorrisseyA comprehensive survey of legal, mystical, and philosophical traditions that shaped Muslim character across centuries.Dimension III · Theme I
• Adab & Leadership EthicsThe Unique Necklace (Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd), Vol. IIIIbn ʿAbd RabbihClassical adab literature exploring ruler ethics, governance decorum, and the culture of courtly conduct.Dimension III · Theme I
• Decolonisation ModuleUncivilised: Ten Lies That Made the WestSubhadra DasDismantling Enlightenment myths, racial hierarchies, and Western civilisational exceptionalism.Dimension II · Theme II
• Majlis I: Systems ThinkingImagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of NationalismBenedict AndersonDeconstructing the modern nation-state model, print capitalism, and invented national identities.Dimension II & IV · Theme II
• Borderland Systems ModuleA History of the World in 47 BordersJonn ElledgeCartographic imperialism, how modern lines were drawn on maps, and the origins of modern border violence.Dimension II & IV · Theme II
• Macro-History & GeographyWhy the West Rules-For NowIan MorrisAnalyzing macro-historical patterns, geography, energy capture, and civilisational development over millennia.Dimension II · Theme II
• Majlis II: Pluralism & CharacterOn IdentityAmin MaaloufExamining identity conflicts, violent tribalism (ʿaṣabiyyah), and belonging in a fractured global world.Dimension III · Theme II
• Majlis II: Stewardship & WaqfTime for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on FireThomas PikettyAnalyzing global wealth inequality and capital concentration to evaluate modern economic systems against Islamic justice.Dimension IV · Theme II
• Decolonisation & GovernanceThe Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral PredicamentWael HallaqA rigorous critique of the modern nation-state structure and its fundamental incompatibility with Islamic moral governance.Dimension II & IV · Theme II
• Anchor Text: Immersive I - SrebrenicaWar Childhood: SarajevoWar Childhood MuseumFirst-person accounts of children surviving the Bosnian war, urban siege, and genocide in Sarajevo.Dimension III & IV · Theme III
• Immersive I: Srebrenica PrepI Keep You Silent: Stories from the Civil Wars in B&HMostafa Salameh & ContributorsPersonal testimonies on social fragmentation, neighbor-on-neighbor violence, and trauma recovery after genocide.Dimension III & IV · Theme III
• Majlis I: ResilienceDon't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at GuantanamoMansoor AdayfiFirst-person testimony of spiritual resilience, patience (ṣabr), and maintaining dignity under extrajudicial detention.Dimension I & III · Theme III
• Fiqh al-Waqt / Moral WitnessLetters from GazaMohammed & Mahmoud Abu RajabEyewitness literature from under siege, documenting genocide, resilience, and human dignity under fire.Dimension III & IV · Theme III
• System Mapping: OccupationOf Occupation and Resistance: Writings from KashmirFahad ShahDocumenting military occupation, political repression, narrative resistance, and human rights in Kashmir.Dimension III & IV · Theme III
• Moral Witness & CommunityThe Book Collectors of DarayaDelphine MinouiThe true story of Syrian youth building a secret underground library beneath a besieged city to preserve intellectual life.Dimension III · Theme III
• System Diagnostics ModuleWriting Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to DamascusLayla Al-Zubaidi & Matthew CasselGrassroots testimonies from the Arab Uprisings, analyzing systemic collapse, movement building, and political hope.Dimension IV · Theme III
• System Mapping: GenocideFirst, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya SpeaksHabiburahmanPersonal testimony of statelessness, state-sponsored violence, and the systematic erasure of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.Dimension IV · Theme III
• System Diagnostics ModuleThe Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's GenocideAzeem IbrahimStructural analysis of ethnic cleansing, international institutional failure, and systemic marginalization.Dimension IV · Theme III
• Borderland Systems ModuleEurasian Crossroads: A History of XinjiangJames A. MillwardA comprehensive history of East Turkestan/Xinjiang, Uyghur identity, imperial incorporation, and cultural erasure.Dimension IV · Theme III
• Immersive II: Istanbul PrepLosing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of EmpireMostafa MinawiAnalyzing post-imperial transition, the breakdown of Arab-Turkish unity, and the human loss of shared citizenship.Dimension IV · Theme III
• Community Building ModuleOur Fatima of Liverpool: The Story of Fatima CotesHamid Mahmood & Yahya BirtThe pioneering story of 19th-century Victorian Muslim converts, indigenous service, and early British-Muslim community roots.Dimension III · Theme III
• Immersive I: Srebrenica Visual WitnessSafe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–1995Joe SaccoGraphic journalism providing a visceral, grounded account of survival, siege, and international failure during the Bosnian war.Dimension III & IV · Theme III
• Immersive I: Historical Witness & ResistanceNafas al-Mahmum: Relating to the Heart-Rending Tragedy of KarbalaSheikh Abbas QomiThe classic historical paradigm of standing against tyranny, enduring state-sponsored massacre, and maintaining moral witness under pressure.Dimension III · Theme III
• Systemic Formation ModuleThe Islamic Personality (Vol. 1)Taquiuddin An-NabhaniMethodological construction of the Islamic mindset (nafsiyyah and ʿaqliyyah) for public life and institutional work.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• System Design & GovernanceThe Islamic StateTaquiuddin An-NabhaniA modern political articulation of classical Islamic governance, legal sovereignty, and constitutional structures.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Anchor Text: Immersive II - IstanbulLonging for the Lost Caliphate: A Transnational HistoryMona HassanTransnational memory, post-1258 (Baghdad) and 1924 (Istanbul) institutional loss, and the persistence of Ummah consciousness.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Majlis II: GovernanceThe Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic UnionReza PankhurstRe-imagining global Muslim political unity and responses to the post-colonial state system.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Movement Building AnalysisHizb-ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation PartyReza PankhurstCritical study of modern transnational political movements, ideological mobilization, and state power.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Majlis II: Collaboration ChartersRegionalizing Pan-Islamism: Documents on the Khilafat MovementMushirul Hasan & Margaret PernauArchival documentation of Indian Muslim anti-colonial mobilization and cross-border solidarity with the Ottoman state.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Immersive II: Istanbul PrepSultan Abdul Hamid II: The Last Great Ottoman SultanMuhammad HarbLate Ottoman statecraft, defensive modernization, Waqf preservation, and Pan-Islamic diplomacy under pressure.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Immersive II: Istanbul PrepOttoman Studiesİlber OrtaylıInstitutional governance, urban administration, Waqf structures, and multi-ethnic balance across Ottoman domains.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Immersive II: Istanbul PrepAn Ottoman Traveller: Selections from Evliya ÇelebiRobert Dankoff (Translator)Geography, everyday social life, urban infrastructure, and civilisational architecture across 17th-century Ottoman lands.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• System Diagnostics ModuleArab Nationalism: A Critical EnquiryBassam TibiCritical ideological analysis of ethnic nationalism and the dismantling of multi-ethnic Islamic polities.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Anti-Colonial LeadershipIndia Wins FreedomMaulana Abul Kalam AzadPluralistic strategy, anti-colonial political leadership, and critical choices made during the Partition of South Asia.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Majlis II: Stewardship & WaqfA History of Philanthropic Foundations: The Islamic World From the Seventh Century to the PresentMurat ÇizakçaThe definitive economic history of Waqf foundations and public-benefit architecture essential for institution-building in perpetuity.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Systemic Formation & GovernanceImamate and LeadershipMujtaba Musavi LariExploring systemic leadership, divine guidance, and the socio-political structures of authority within Islamic thought.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Advanced Epistemology & ExegesisAl-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān (Selections)Allameh Sayyid Muhammad Husayn TabatabaiContemporary philosophical and social exegesis of the Qur'an addressing modern intellectual challenges and societal structures.Dimension II · Theme IV
• Pluralism, Character & DialogueThen I Was GuidedMuhammad al-Tijani al-SamawiA prominent modern text on cross-school dialogue, critical self-examination, and the pursuit of truth across theological lines.Dimension III · Theme IV
• System Diagnostics & State PowerShiism and the Rulers (Al-Shia wa 'l-Hakimun)Muhammad Jawad MughniyyaA juristic critique of despotic rule and historical friction between Islamic movements and political authorities.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• Advanced Metaphysics & TheologyTajrīd al-Iʿtiqād (The Abstraction of Creeds)Nasir al-Din al-TusiA foundational cornerstone text of rational ontology and metaphysics.Dimension II · Theme IV
• Transcendent PhilosophyKitāb al-Mashāʿir (The Book of Metaphysical Penetrations)Mulla SadraExploring transcendent philosophy (hikmat muta'aliyah), ontology, and the inner mechanics of existence.Dimension II · Theme IV
• Creedal FrameworksFaith and Practice: Explication of al-I‘tiqadMuhammad Baqir al-MajlisiMatters of truth, divine guidance, and salvation mapped through traditional frameworks.Dimension I & III · Theme IV
• Spiritual WayfaringMisbah al-Shariah (The Lamp of the Path)Attributed to Imam Jafar al-SadiqManuals of spiritual wayfaring, inner purification, and the ethics of the heart.Dimension I · Theme IV
• Advanced Legal TheoryMabādiʾ al-Wuṣūl ilā ʿIlm al-Uṣūl (Foundations of Jurisprudence)Al-Hasan ibn al-Mutahhar al-HilliMethodological derivation of legal rulings in Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh).Dimension II · Theme IV
• Comparative EpistemologyUniversal Science: An Introduction to Islamic MetaphysicsMahdi Hairi YazdiA comparative bridge between Islamic illuminationist philosophy and Western epistemology.Dimension II · Theme IV
• SIYAR Institute Research SeriesAl-Azhar Strikes Back: How Its Scholars Rejected Secularism and Reaffirmed the CaliphateTranslation of the Al-Azhar Disciplinary Ruling on Ali 'Abd al-Raziq (1925) (SIYAR Institute)Historical text detailing institutional pushback from Al-Azhar scholars against early 20th-century secularism and their defense of the Caliphate.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• SIYAR Institute Research SeriesIslam and the True Foundations of RulingCritical background study of Al-Islam Usul al-Hukm (SIYAR Institute)Analytical study examining the intellectual arguments surrounding the separation of mosque and state in modern Islamic history.Dimension IV · Theme IV
• SIYAR Institute Research SeriesThe Rights of the Ruler and the RuledTranslation from Taḥrīr al-Aḥkām fī Tadbīr Ahl al-Islām (SIYAR Institute)Classical jurisprudential treatise outlining mutual obligations, structural checks and balances, and ethical boundaries between authorities and citizens.Dimension IV · Theme IV