Tokat Institute

Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies
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“Modern science looks at the human being as an animal, as a creature, and the soul or the mind as a function of the body. But we look at it the other way around.”

🎞️ Medicine and the Sacred in Islam | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Mukhtar Ali
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/FnW8Nj1lRP

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MukhtarAli #IslamicPhilosophy #SacredMedicine #MindAndBody #IslamicStudies #PhilosophyOfMind

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

“When he was studying attitudes in the West about Muslims and Arabs, there was an uncanny similarity to the way Jews were represented in medieval Europe.”

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Atif Khalil
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/HQMAaOv6AC

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AtifKhalil #Orientalism #IslamicStudies #EdwardSaid #MedievalEurope #ComparativeReligion

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ The Path of Muhammadan Love | SPRING 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. William C. Chittick
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/avJ6zIlr89

#WilliamChittick #TIAIS #TokatInstitute #Wujud #IslamicMetaphysics #Sufism #IbnArabi #Farghani #Ontology #Quran #Existence #Metaphysics

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

"We mistake the model for reality—that is what is happening. That is the issue behind all of these grandiose statements."

🎞️ Islam, AI, and the Future of Humanity | SPRING 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Muhammad Faruque
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/wOJ03P4IeA

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MuhammadFaruque #PhilosophyOfAI #Epistemology #Representation #Consciousness #AIPhilosophy

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

So in life, you'll find that the choices you make when you're younger somehow correspond to things you'll discover about yourself later on. It just takes time.*

🎞️ Inrushes of the Heart: An Introduction to ʿAyn al-Quḍāt | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Mohammed Rustom
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/zY5CEahM9u

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MohammedRustom #SelfKnowledge #IslamicPhilosophy #SpiritualDevelopment #AynAlQudat #IntellectualTradition

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ Medicine and the Sacred in Islam | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Mukhtar Ali
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/FnW8Nj1lRP

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MukhtarAli #ProfMukhtarAli #Islam #IslamicCosmology #Soul #Body #Consciousness #Metaphysics #Sufism #Spirituality #Materialism #SacredMedicine #MedicineAndTheSacred

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

All translation sacrifices meaning, including the literal ones. In fact, if anything, I would say the literal ones do a lot more damage to the overall experience. *

🎞️ Rhyme’s Reason: Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Shawkat M. Toorawa
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/YAO6qlryIy

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #ShawkatToorawa #QuranTranslation #TranslationStudies #QuranicStudies #Hermeneutics

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Atif Khalil
🗣️ Language: English
🎥 https://t.co/HQMAaOv6AC

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AtifKhalil #EdwardSaid #Orientalism #Islam #Islamophobia #Philosophy #Civilization #AntiSemitism #TheVisionOfIslam #MiddleEast #Culture #Religion

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

“Does the Qur’an talk about wujūd? Yes, all the time — but not as a noun, as a verb.”

🎞️ The Path of Muhammadan Love | SPRING 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. William C. Chittick
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/tOX0qfhn3P

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #WilliamChittick #Wujud #QuranicStudies #IslamicMetaphysics #Sufism #Farghani

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ Islam, AI, and the Future of Humanity | SPRING 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Muhammad Faruque
🗣️ Language: English
🎥 https://t.co/wOJ03P4IeA

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MuhammadFaruque #AI #Consciousness #Knowledge #Philosophy #Epistemology #Awareness

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

We project onto the world the state of the self.*

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Atif Khalil
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/HQMAaOv6AC

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AtifKhalil #SelfKnowledge #Perception #PhilosophyOfReligion

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ Rhyme’s Reason: Translating the Qur’an’s (Most) Important Features | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Shawkat M. Toorawa
🗣️ Language: English
🎥 https://t.co/YAO6qlryIy

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #ShawkatMToorawa #QuranTranslation #Quran #TranslationTheory #IslamicStudies #LiteralTranslation #QuranStudies #Arabic #WorldLiterature #Tafsir

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

"Do you need evidence or concepts to know that you are tired right now? It’s obvious. But how is that not knowledge that you’re tired now? Of course it is."

🎞️ Islam, AI, and the Future of Humanity | SPRING 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Muhammad Faruque
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/wOJ03P4IeA

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MuhammadFaruque #Epistemology #SelfKnowledge #PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #IslamicPhilosophy

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ Inrushes of the Heart: An Introduction to ʿAyn al-Quḍāt | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Mohammed Rustom
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/zY5CEahM9u

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #MohammedRustom #Existence #God #Metaphysics #Sufism #Reality #Ontology

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

This was done through a process of self-definition by exclusion, where you come to understand who you are by what you think you are not.

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Atif Khalil
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/HQMAaOv6AC

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AtifKhalil #SelfIdentity #Hermeneutics #IslamicStudies #Philosophy #IntellectualHistory

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The Islamic Studies Toolkit: Graduate School, Publishing, Conferences, and Career Strategies with Mohammed Rustom

As part of the 2026 Spring Lecture Series at TIAIS, this session offers a focused look at navigating the field of Islamic Studies, from graduate admissions to publishing, conferences, and long-term academic and professional pathways.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026
12:00 PM (EST)
5:00 PM (UK)
7:00 PM (Turkey)
9:00 PM (Pakistan)

Join us for a practical and candid discussion on building a meaningful trajectory in the discipline.

Registration at https://t.co/UiqBSe5cIp

#IslamicStudies #GraduateSchool #CareerStrategy #Education #AcademicLife

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

There is a dimension of Islam as a religion that pertains to the realm of the body, a dimension that pertains to the realm of the mind, and a dimension that pertains to the realm of the soul or the heart.*

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Prof. Atif Khalil
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/HQMAaOv6AC

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AtifKhalil #IslamicStudies #PhilosophyOfReligion #IslamicThought #Sufism #Epistemology #Anthropology

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

🎞️ The Vision of Islam | FALL 2026
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Atif Khalil
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/QM4LmiYt3g

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

"The thing that can make the whole being sound is by changing the nature of the heart."

🎞️ What is “Islamic” about Islamic Psychology? | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Dr. Abdallah Rothman
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/ifm14i11dP

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #AbdallahRothman #IslamicPsychology #Heart #InnerTransformation #SpiritualPsychology

[Tokat Institute @TokatInstitute]

In the most prominent context for poetry among early Sufis listening to music, both the emotional affect and the interpretation were located in the listener, not the poet.*

🎞️ Modern Misreadings of Mystical Commentaries on Hafez | FALL 2025
🏛️ Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (TIAIS)
🎙️ Professor Carl W. Ernst
🗣️ English
🎥 https://t.co/Mo3pxBn1nM

#TokatInstitute #TIAIS #CarlWErnst #Hafez #Sufism #Hermeneutics #IslamicStudies #Poetry