Power, Identity, and Critical Perspectives

This year, our curated book list explores the intricate tapestry of power dynamics, resistance, identity, and historical narratives that shape our world. Each title offers a unique perspective, collectively weaving a narrative that challenges conventional wisdom and encourages critical thinking.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    2024 Book List

    • Upcoming Webinar Details | The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

    • The 100 Years’ War on Palestine | Rashid Khalidi

    • Epistemological Bias in the Physical and Social Sciences | Abdelwahab Elmessiri

    • A Dying Colonialism | Franz Fanon

    • The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis

    • Islam & the Problem of Black Suffering | Sherman Jackson

    • Al-Muqaddimah | ibn Khaldun
  • 2

    2023 Book List

    • Readings in AI | Various Authors

    • Culture and the Death of God | Terry Eagleton

    • True Believer | Eric Hoffer

    • The Big Nine | Amy Webb

    • The Chaos Machine | Max Fisher

    • Rebooting AI | Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

    • The Alignment Problem | Brian Christian
  • 3

    2022 Book List

    • Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam | Syed Naquib al-Attas

    • The Disappearance of Childhood | Neil Postman

    • With the Heart in Mind | Mikaeel Ahmed Smith

    • The Coddling of the American Mind | Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn

    • The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times | René Guénon

    • Formations of the Secular | Talal Asad

    • The Theological Origins of Modernity | Michael Allen Gillespie
  • 4

    2021 Book List

    • Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) | Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson

    • The Enigma of Reason | Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber

    • Science & Myth | Wolfgang Smith

    • The Scientification of Religion | Kocku von Struckard

    • Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance | George Saliba

    • Science Set Free | Rupert Sheldrake

    • Lost History | Michael Hamilton Morgan

    • Science & Civilization in Islam | Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  • 5

    2020 Book List

    • Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire

    • The Crisis of the Modern World | René Guénon

    • Straw Dogs | John Gray

    • After Virtue | Alasdair MacIntyre

    • The Knowledge Illusion | Steven Slowman & Phillip Fernbach

    • The Power Paradox | Dacher Keltner

    • Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands | Roger Scruton

    • Reforming Modernity | Wael B. Hallaq
  • 6

    2019 Book List

    • The Road to Mecca | Muhammad Assad

    • Islam Through Western Eyes | Jonathan Lyons

    • Restating Orientalism | Wael B. Hallaq

    • An Introduction to Islamic Law | Wael B. Hallaq

    • A Return to Purity in Creed | Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali

    • The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology | Wolfgang Smith

    • Faith and Reason in Islam | Averroes

    • Where the Conflict Really Lies | Alvin Plantinga
  • 7

    2018 Book List

    • Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman

    • Orality and Literacy | Walter J Ong

    • The Death of Expertise | Tim Nichols

    • Against the Modern World | Mark Sedgwick

    • Islam and the Destiny of Man | Charles Gai Eaton

    • The Malaise of Modernity | Charles Taylor

    • The Impossible State | Wale B. Hallaq

    • The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State | Noah Feldman

    • The Myth of Religious Violence | William T Cavanaugh
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    2017 Book List

    • The Colonizer and the Colonized | Albert Memmi

    • Islam Between East and West | Ali Izetbegović

    • The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt

    • The Tao of Islam | Sachiko Murata

    • Misquoting Muhammad | Jonathan A.C. Brown

    • Technopoly | Neil Postman

    • Soul Machine | George Makari

    • Islam in Liberalism | Joseph Massad

    • Aping Mankind | Raymond Tallis

    • The Reconstruction of Religious Though in Islam | Muhammad Iqbal

    • The Experience of God | David Bentley Hart