A selection of tafsir from Surat al-Fatihah and other chapters of the Quran. Taught by Imam Zaid Shakir.

Khwaja Abdallah al-Ansari, the great 11th century sage and exegete, has in his treasured writings many illustrations of sacred meanings that are easy for all to understand. In this course, we will examine many of his counsels that will be of benefit due to their universal applicability.

In this course, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf covers four hadith that summarize the most important teachings of the religion.

From a young age many of us have been encouraged to memorize the last ten surahs of the Quran. For many years, this is all that some of us have recited in our salah. The question then becomes: do we even know what these verses mean? What their historical context for revelation was? What their imp...

This course will cover three main areas of Islamic creed: the attributes of Allah, the nature of the Prophets, and transmitted revelatory knowledge from the unseen. Students will learn about what attributes are necessary to, conceivable of, and inconsistent with divinity; what is the Muslim under...

Legal maxims are important foundations of Muslim ethical reasoning. They also aid scholars and students on the path to scholarship with the capacity to grasp the higher principles that undergird the laws of Islam. This course acquaints students with both the overarching and subordinate legal maxi...

Based on the landmark paper of the same title by Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, this course will cover the fundamental concepts in what makes up an Islamic worldview. Through this course, students will develop a basic understanding of the field of Islamic philosophy as understood by som...