“Muslim responses to Western modernity range from call for reform of to call of revival of Islam, or from total rejection of either tradition or modernity to a reconstruction of Islamic religious thought. Sayyid Ahmed Khan (d.1898) ‘jadid ilm al-kalam‘ a new Islamic theology of modernity. Khan’s approach was called ‘Islamic Modernism’. Iqbal (d.1938)’s Reconstruction of Religious Thought… Read More 28 Dec 2019: 9 Sessions Study of Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Friday, 29th November 2019, 6:00 pm at Hast o Neest, Lahore: Open Sitting on the Book: Wisdom for the Modern Age – Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions by Abdal Hakim Murad Dr. Timothy Winter with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz & Fyza Noon Abdal Hakim Murad, a [British] Muslim convert, and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College,… Read More Fri, 29 Nov: Book Review: Contentions by Dr. Timothy Winter (Cambridge) with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz & Fyza Noon.

This Week: Thursday 31st Oct, Friday 1st Nov & Saturday 2nd Nov 2019, Persian Miniatures with Fyza Noon, Grammar of Love in the Quran with Syed Uzair and Poetry of Anwar Shaoor with Qasim Jafri.

Study-Circle with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz Mondays 6:00 to 7:00pm; Starting Monday, 1st July 2019 Five Sittings on Titus Burckhardt’s Introduction to Universal Man ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili Extracts, translated with commentary by Titus Burckhardt. Translated from the French by Angela Culme-Seymour ‘I will mention of all that only that which happened to me on my own… Read More 1st July: Five Sittings on Titus Burckhardt’s Introduction to Universal Man ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz

Open Sitting: Sunday, 24th February 2019 at 4:00 pm at Hast o Neest. A Conversation on Ilm ul Kalaam علم الکلام – اعتقادیات – Theology of Islam and Falsafa Ikhlaq فلسفہ اخلاق : God Religion and Ethics in the Islamic Tradition with Rehan Gelani and Hamid Reza. Two Study Programs – of 12 Days and… Read More Sun 24 Feb: A Conversation on Ilm ul Kalaam علم الکلام – اعتقادیات – Theology of Islam and Falsafa Ikhlaq فلسفہ اخلاق with Syed Rehan Gilani and Hamid Reza Fazil.

میرے لیے فلسفہ اخلاق کا جاننا کیوں ضروری ہے؟ Course – تعارفی دروس برائےفلسفہ اخلاق‎ Falsafa Ikhlaq فلسفہ اخلاق God, Religion and Ethics in the Islamic Tradition with Hamid Reza Fazil – is scheduled to begin Saturday, 23rd February 2019. The 8-Day Study raises the following questions:  1. Is it important to know the Philosophy… Read More Begins 23rd February 2019, a 8-Day Study, God, Religion and Ethics in the Islamic Tradition – تعارفی دروس برائےفلسفہ اخلاق‎ Falsafa Ikhlaq فلسفہ اخلاق with Hamid Reza Fazil

Course – 12 Days Study on the Story of Ilm ul Kalaam تعارفی دروس :علم الکلام – اعتقادیات with Rehan Gilani – is scheduled to begin Tuesday, 19th February 2019 Matters of Religious Creed – 1: Foundational Arguments of Belief in the Theology of Islam with reference to the text Al-Fiqh-ul-Akbar by Abu Hanifa &… Read More Starts Tuesday, 19th February 2019, a 12 Days Study on the Story of Ilm ul Kalaam تعارفی دروس:علم الکلام-اعتقادیات with Rehan Gilani

5 Sittings of an Open Study Circle on Two Epistles of Al-Kindi on Colour and Rays, with Danish Baloch. On Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, starting Wed 5 December 2018 – Wed 2 January 2019 Method of the Study Circle: Studying the way of the argumentation through which he develops his doctrine (Urdu). Abu Yusuf… Read More 5 Dec 2018 – 2 Jan 2019: 5 Sittings of an Open Study Circle on Two Epistles of Al-Kindi – on Colour and Rays – with Danish Baloch.

REGISTER TODAY FOR 1ST WEEK FEBRUARY 2019 SESSION THREE MONTH, BEGINNER, CLASSIC ARABIC/FARSI LANGUAGE (including online provision) ARABIC LANGUAGE with Rehan Gillani Fridays & Saturdays 5:30 to 6:30 pm FARSI LANGUAGE with Syeda Hareem Saturdays & Sundays 4:00 to 5:00 pm REGISTER: SEND IN COURSE TITLE, PARTICIPANT NAME, EMAIL & WHATSAPP MOBILE NUMBER ON hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008493170… Read More REGISTER TODAY FOR 1ST WEEK FEBRUARY 2019 SESSION THREE MONTH, BEGINNER, CLASSIC ARABIC/FARSI LANGUAGE (including online provision)

8 Sittings – A Study Circle – on the book ‘Fuyuz al Haramayn’ by Shah Wali Allah (1703 – 62, Delhi) with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz at Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts, Lahore. In eight sittings, participants will read and engage with the text of five ‘mushahidah’ or spiritual visions that Shah… Read More Starting Mon 3 Dec 2018: 8 Sittings on the book ‘Fuyuz al Haramayn’ by Shah Wali Allah (1703 – 62, Delhi) with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz