10/01/2026
The Enigma of Creation: Consciousness is an interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most fundamental mysteries of human existence: conscious experience. The course examines how we perceive, feel, think, and experience reality from within, bringing revelation and Islamic spirituality into conversation with philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and contemporary philosophy of mind.
The course is grounded primarily in the Qur’an and the perspectives of Al-Ghazālī, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gülen, whose approaches to the soul and inner life provide the central framework through which other thinkers and traditions are considered. Rather than presenting these perspectives as disconnected theories, the course explores their convergences and differences within a coherent spiritual and intellectual framework.
Teaching is primarily Socratic and dialogical, with active participant engagement throughout each session. Through self-observation, ordinary experience, metaphors, thought experiments, philosophical dialogue, and guided reflection, participants are invited not only to think about consciousness theoretically, but also to attend closely to their own inner experience. Bishop Berkeley’s dialogical method is also used as a way of examining the relationship between the mental and the physical.
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