After Modernity
What comes after the modern world? Explore competing visions of knowledge, society, and human flourishing in an age of global crisis.
A syllabus, not a playlist.
A working command of the vocabulary of Islamic metaphysics — wujūd, māhiyya, the gradation of being — used precisely, not loosely.
The capacity to read primary texts of Ibn Sīnā and Mullā Ṣadrā with comprehension rather than reverence alone.
An understanding of why the tradition treats metaphysics as the science of realities — and what that claim asks of the knower.
Direct exchange with Professor Nasr in open Q&A after every session — the part no book can replace.
Muhammad Faruque is a scholar of Islamic philosophy, Sufism, environmental humanities, and global philosophy whose work explores the relationship between selfhood, consciousness, and technology in the modern world. Bridging Islamic intellectual traditions with contemporary philosophical and civilizational questions, his scholarship addresses climate change, AI, metaphysics, and the crisis of meaning in late modernity. At Tokat, he teaches the philosophical and contemplative foundations necessary for rethinking the human condition in an age of technological and ecological transformation.
Syed Farid Alatas is one of the leading contemporary sociologists working on Islamic thought, social theory, and the decolonization of knowledge. His scholarship has been especially influential in recovering non-Western intellectual traditions as sources of social theory and in challenging Eurocentric assumptions within the humanities and social sciences. Through his work on Ibn Khaldun, religion, and alternative sociological traditions, Professor Alatas has helped advance global conversations on knowledge production, civilizational dialogue, and the future of the social sciences.
