Beyond Borders: Bringing the Tools of Learning to You Zaytuna College aims to follow in the footsteps of the forebears of Islam’s great intellectual tradition, who rooted their scholarship in the pursuit of sound knowledge and understood that knowledge was the right of every Muslim. The great Yale historian Franz Rosenthal observed, “There is no branch of Muslim intellectual life, of Muslim religious and political life, and of the daily life of the average Muslim that remained untouched by the all-pervasive attitude toward ‘knowledge’ as something of supreme value for Muslim being.”
The initiative will integrate a holistic curriculum based on the trivium and quadrivium from both the Western and Muslim traditions. Students will have the opportunity to develop a foundational Muslim literacy that provides the requisite knowledge and tools to tackle today’s theological and ethical challenges. Constitutional Law and Introduction to Logic, presented by Zaytuna faculty members, will serve as the first two courses. Filming is scheduled to begin at the start of the new year.
This pursuit of knowledge “Constitutional Law and Introduction These will be followed by transcends buildings or to Logic, presented by Zaytuna faculty a fard ayn series that will institutions and lives in the members, will serve as the first two include the obligatory hearts of sincere seekers. sciences of the Islamic Muslim scholars often wrote courses. Filming is scheduled to begin tradition, including creed, at the start of the new year.” adaptations and primers of jurisprudence, spirituality, their own work, so that a wider audience could hadith, prophetic biography, and more. Specialty benefit from their insights. Imām al-Ghazālī, one courses on topics such as Islamic finance, medical of the greatest codifiers of the Muslim sciences, ethics, sustainable living, halal education, and wrote several adaptations of his magnum opus more will be developed to better inform those The Revival of the Religious Sciences, in Persian and who have professional or personal interest in these Arabic alike, to reach audiences of all backgrounds. fields. These distillations remain in the canon of Muslim Ultimately, Zaytuna aims to develop a educational literature. They serve both as a means comprehensive online learning catalog that of general education and as essential primers for provides high-quality courses with an optimized the student of knowledge. user experience. The program will be designed With the generous gift enabling the creation of using the best practices in distance learning and a high-quality professional studio, the College will allow Zaytuna’s supporters to actively study is excited to announce the launch of an online with faculty and benefit from the education they learning program that will propel Zaytuna’s support. education mission beyond the classroom.
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