Your Instructor
Dr Najah Nadi is a traditionally trained academic with over two decades of learning experiences and over a decade of teaching experience. Her research focuses on Islamic classical theories of knowledge across disciplines of philosophy, theology, law, and spirituality, as well as fatwas and fatwa institutions.
Dr. Najah holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, focusing on the scholarship of the immanent Persian polymath Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792/1390). She also holds an M.A. in Religious and Theological Studies from Boston University, as well as a B.A. in Islamic Studies from al-Azhar University in Cairo. Dr. Najah has completed several years of traditional training at al-Azhar Mosque, receiving teaching licenses (ijāzāt) in various Islamic sciences. Dr. Najah has served as a junior fellow at the Holberg seminar on Islamic history at Princeton University from 2015-2019, a fellow of peace and reconciliation at Virginia Theological Seminary from 2017-2021. Her teaching courses include Islamic legal theories, classical logic and ontology and Islamic spirituality and ethics.
See Dr Najah's full bio here.
Curriculum
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StartSession 1: Knowledge is Divine (30:20)
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StartSession 1: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 2: Human nature and faculties, and the acquisition of knowledge (38:13)
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StartSession 2: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 3: Knowability of knowledge & the objects of knowledge (35:39)
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StartSession 3: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 1: The structure of knowledge and its justification (53:47)
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StartSession 1: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 2: The act of reasoning: speculative inquiry (naẓar) (44:19)
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StartSession 2: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 3: Knowledge justification (proofs) (51:13)
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StartSession 3: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 4: Cont. Knowledge justifications: the dialectical process (60:31)
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StartSession 4: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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StartSession 5: Reason and revelation and the power of language (46:42)
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StartSession 5: Reflection Exercise, Quiz & Further Reading
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