FIKR
Schedule

The weekly rhythm of the program.

Five sessions each week: four weekday evenings and a long Sunday seminar.

Standard Week

Weekly schedule

DayTimeFocus
Monday8:30 – 10:00 PMClassical ʿAqīdah / School Texts
Tuesday8:30 – 10:00 PMClassical Kalām / Systematic Theology
Wednesday8:30 – 10:00 PMManṭiq / Argumentation / Research Method
Thursday8:30 – 10:00 PMWestern Philosophy / Contemporary Philosophy
Sunday8:00 – 11:30 AMLong Seminar, Primary Text, Integration, and Workshop
Sunday Seminar

The long seminar structure

  1. 8:00 – 9:15 AM
    Primary Text Seminar
  2. 9:15 – 9:30 AM
    Break
  3. 9:30 – 10:45 AM
    Comparative / Philosophical Integration
  4. 10:45 – 11:30 AM
    Oral Quizzes · Paper Workshop · Research Colloquium
Year by Year

Anchor texts across the week, by year.

Year I
  • Monal-ʿAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah
  • TueEarly Ashʿarī / al-Lumaʿ
  • WedIsāghūjī · al-Sullam al-Munawraq
  • ThuPlato · Aristotle · Aquinas
  • SunAtharī corpus + integration
Year II
  • MonKitāb al-Tawḥīd (al-Māturīdī)
  • Tueal-Iqtiṣād fī al-Iʿtiqād
  • Wedal-Shamsiyyah · Ādāb al-Baḥth
  • ThuDescartes → Kant
  • Sunal-Tadmuriyyah + integration
Year III
  • Monal-Durrah al-Muḍīyah
  • TueSharḥ al-Maqāṣid / Sharḥ al-Mawāqif
  • WedModal logic · capstone workshop
  • ThuAnalytic philosophy of religion, science, mind
  • SunMawqif al-ʿAql + neo-kalām integration