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Islamic medicine emerged as a synthesis of Greek rationalism, Persian and Syriac cosmology, and the empirical, linguistic, and ethical insights of the Islamic world. 🎞️ Medicine and the Sacred in Islam | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Mukhtar Ali 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/ali #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MukhtarAli #IslamicMedicine #HistoryOfScience #IslamicThought #IntellectualHistory

The perfection of the Qur’an in prose and its delayed fulfillment in poetry—this excerpt presents a bold claim about the inner reality of Muhammad. 🎞️ The Path of Muhammadan Love | SPRING 2026 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Professor William C. Chittick 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/farghani #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #WilliamCChittick #Sufism #IslamicPhilosophy #Muhammad #Quran #Metaphysics #DivineLove

Maryam is similarly the recipient of several private miraculous gifts from God that appear to have no purpose other than to provide her comfort and sustenance and seem to be purely for her personal benefit. 🎞️ An Islamic Ethics of War and Peace | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Asma Afsaruddin 🗣️ Dil: English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/afsaruddin #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AsmaAfsaruddin #IslamicStudies #QuranicStudies #Maryam #Theology #IslamicThought

The miracles granted to Maryam are presented not as public signs, but as deeply personal divine provisions. The image of her chamber filled with out-of-season fruits challenges the assumption that miracles must serve a visible, communal purpose. 🎞️ The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Maria Massi Dakake 🗣️ Language: English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/dakake #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MariaMassiDakake #Dakake #Maryam #Miracles #Sanctity #Walaya #Quran #IslamicThought

“And the irony is that there is no soul anymore in the study of the soul.” 🎙️ Dr. Abdallah Rothman 🎞️ Islam, AI, and the Future of Humanity | SPRING 2026 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/rothman 🏷 #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AbdallahRothman #IslamicPsychology #Epistemology #Soul #PhilosophyOfMind #Secularism #AIandHumanity #SpiritualCrisis

Prof. Mukhtar Ali makes a fundamental distinction regarding the understanding of healing: There are two kinds of medicine. 🎞️ A Brief History of Islamic Medicine | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Mukhtar Ali 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/ali #PropheticMedicine #Saints #PhilosophyOfMedicine #TwoMedicines #ProfMukhtarAli #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AncientMedicine #HolisticHealing

"The will is related to consciousness. This relationship does not exist in the dream state." 🎙️ Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr 🎞️ The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/lectures/being… 🎓 tokatinstitute.org/nasr 🏷 #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #SeyyedHosseinNasr #IslamicPhilosophy #Consciousness #Metaphysics #IslamicThought

Human purpose cannot be confined to birth and death; the soul follows a longer journey. 🎞️ What is “Islamic” about Islamic Psychology? | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Dr. Abdallah Rothman 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/rothman #TokatInstitute, #TIAIS, #AbdallahRothman, #IslamicPsychology, #Afterlife, #SoulJourney, #HumanPurpose, #PsychologyAndSpirituality

One of the biggest pitfalls… is this false view that one is being more faithful to the text by simply reproducing in English the Arabic syntax. 🎙️ Prof. Shawkat M. Toorawa 🎞️ Rhyme’s Reason: Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/toorawa 🏷 #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #ShawkatMToorawa #QuranTranslation #TranslationStudies #ArabicSyntax #QuranStudies #Hermeneutics

Here, privacy is not treated as a mere biographical detail but as a decisive interpretive key for Maryam’s spiritual rank. 🎞️ The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Maria Massi Dakake 🗣️ Language: English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/dakake #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MariaMassiDakake #Dakake #Maryam #Walaya #Prophethood #Sanctity #Quran #IslamicThought

“The modern world … considers consciousness to have evolved from the molecules, the soup of molecules banging against each other. That is the absurdity of this view from a traditional point of view.” 🎙️ Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr 🎞️ The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/lectures/being… 🎓 tokatinstitute.org/nasr 🏷️ #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #SeyyedHosseinNasr #TraditionalMetaphysics #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #IslamicThought #Metaphysics #ReligionAndPhilosophy

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s sharp critique of the philosophers’ denial of divine free choice is examined. 🎞️ From Ibn Sina’s Necessary Existent to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s God | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Peter Adamson 🗣️ Language: English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/adamson #DivineWill #Necessity #FakhrAlDinAlRazi #Avicenna #IslamicPhilosophy #Kalam #DivineAttributes #PeterAdamson #TokatInstitute #TIAIS

“This act of gesturing or pointing to something without articulating it explicitly—ishāra in Arabic—is often said to be the mode of communication favored by the awliyāʾ.” 🎙️ Prof. Maria Massi Dakake 🎞️ The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/dakake 🏷️ #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MariaMassiDakake #QuranicStudies #ProphecyAndSanctity #IslamicSpirituality #Awliya #ArabicRhetoric #IslamicThought

What does it mean for the whole person to be “sound” when the heart is sound? This paradigm places psychological healing not merely in symptom management, but in transforming the inner center of the human being. The lecture frames Islamic psychology through an “inner reality–outer life” integration. 📅 Date: October 1, 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Dr. Abdallah Rothman 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/rothman #IslamicPsychology #Heart #Soul #Nafs #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AbdallahRothman

“Knowledge and information are completely two different things.” 🎙️ Prof. Mahmut Erol Kılıç 🎞️ Multiple Degrees of Being in Sufism: An Interpretive Tool for Religious Understanding | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/kilic 🏷️ #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MahmutErolKılıç #Sufism #Tasawwuf #IslamicThought #IslamicPhilosophy #SpiritualEpistemology #ReligionAndPhilosophy

What traps us is not the maze itself, but the belief that there is an outside to escape to. 🎞️ Inrushes of the Heart: An Introduction to ʿAyn al-Quḍāt | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Mohammed Rustom 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/rustom #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MohammedRustom #AynAlQudat #Sufism #Metaphysics #Reality #IllusionOfSelf #SpiritualInsight #InnerJourney

“In other words, healing is a spiritual property, and there can be two kinds of medicine.” 🎙️ Prof. Mukhtar Ali 🎞️ Medicine and the Sacred in Islam | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/ali 🏷️ #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MukhtarAli #MedicineAndTheSacred #IslamicMedicine #SpiritualHealing #IslamicThought #ReligionAndMedicine

Nasr frames consciousness as selective and will-driven, then contrasts it with the dream state where that will–consciousness link collapses. 🎞️ Islamic Metaphysics | FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/nasr #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #SeyyedHosseinNasr #consciousness #will #dreamstate

“He thinks the only way you know anything about God is to infer God’s attributes from necessity.” 🎙️ Prof. Peter Adamson 🎞️ From Ibn Sina’s Necessary Existent to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s God | FALL 2025 🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/adamson 🏷️ #TokatInstitute #TIAIS #PeterAdamson #IslamicPhilosophy #IbnSina #Avicenna #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfReligion

Excerpted from Multiple Degrees of Being in Sufism. 📅 FALL 2025 📍 Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS) 🎙️ Prof. Mahmut Erol Kılıç 🗣️ English 🎥 tokatinstitute.org/kilic #Tariqa #Sufism #Haqiqa #Marifa #Ontology #ReligionCritique #MahmutErolKilic #TokatInstitute #TIAIS