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The Impossible State
A guided reading of Wael B. Hallaq's The Impossible State, examining modern statehood and questions of Islamic political and moral thought.
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The first courses of The Silk Roads Book Club. Completed programmes are documented here; private recordings and participant resources are not publicly distributed.
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Islamic Philosophy: An Introduction — Level 1
An introductory course covering the history of Islamic philosophy, kalām, falsafa, ḥikma, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, with a special lecture by Dr Asad Q. Ahmed on philosophical traditions in late pre-modern South Asia.
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Islam and Secularism
A guided study of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, scheduled for November–December 2026, including discussions of secularization, the concept of religion, and the de-westernization of knowledge.
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