During the first year, three core texts will provide the foundational variables of the epistemology of traditional Islamic Theology and Philosophy. The Big Questions addressed with these groups will be “What is knowledge?”,
“What is knowing?”, “What are the limits of what is knowable?”, and (most importantly) “How is certain knowledge obtained?”
- al-Muwaqqaf fī ʿilm al-kalām (author: al-Ījī, d. 1356 CE)
- Sharh al-Taftāzānī ʿalā al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafiyya (author: al-Taftāzānī, d. 1390 CE)
- Sharh al-Kubrā li al-Sanūsī (author: al-Sanūsī, d. 1490)
- Glossary of Technical Terms (author: Carl Sharif El-Tobgui—contemporary)
- Haqa'iq al-Ashya' (Taftazani with Hawashi)