Session 13 – Usul al-Din and the Secret Garden

Lecturer: Payam Mohseni, Director of the Project on Shi’ism & Global Affairs, Harvard Divinity School (affiliation at the date recorded)

Duration: 2 hours

Date Recorded: October 2023

Subject: Some scholars of Islam describe the journey of humanity as a return to the Primordial Garden. This talk explores how the idea of the garden and paradise is central in Islamic thought and philosophy. It further discusses the field of Usul al-Din (the Foundations of ‘Religion’) and discusses the trans-legal importance of the Foundations within Islamic understandings of the self and human becoming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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