Diploma in 'Aqliyyat
75 lectures across foundational creed, Sanusian primers, tasawwuf, usul, and logic.
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An unbroken inheritance
View the world through
the eyes of a scholar.
A structured online program in the rational sciences of Sunni Islam โ spanning creed, logic, usul, hikma, debate, and tasawwuf โ that gives you a coherent way to think and see the world.
In association with
Safina Society
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Darul Fath
An unbroken inheritance
Learn to reason as the
giants of the tradition did.
The rational sciences of creed, logic, usul, and disciplined debate are how the great scholars of Sunni Islam reasoned, taught, and handed down certainty โ in an unbroken chain reaching back to the Prophet ๏ทบ. This is the very tradition of al-Ghazali and al-Taftazani, the central path of the masters themselves, and it still lives and breathes in the North African inheritance. Here you study it directly, learning not only what they concluded but how they thought, and take your place within it.
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Proof
Kalam as verification
Students learn how belief is known, how evidence is ordered, and why rational judgment matters for worship, prophecy, and salvation.
Inheritance
The Sanusian spine
The curriculum moves through concise Maghribi texts into the central Sanusian creed sequence, beginning in English and advancing toward Arabic commentaries.
Adab
Study without polemics
Logic, debate, tasawwuf, and usul keep intellectual work anchored in spiritual accountability, precision, and disciplined disagreement.
Who it is for
For deep thinkers
in every field.
Whatever your discipline, the same Ash'ari kalam tradition that shaped Imam al-Ghazali, Imam al-Sanusi, and centuries of thinkers gives you a coherent way to see the world โ clarity without polemics, tradition without obscurity, confidence without arrogance.
- The liberal arts. Writers, historians, and humanists tracing how a living intellectual tradition reasons about meaning, ethics, and being.
- Medicine & the sciences. Practitioners who confront life, death, and certainty, and want a rigorous framework for the questions data cannot answer.
- Law & public life. Those who argue, judge, and persuade for a living, sharpening their reasoning against a centuries-old science of proof.
- Technology & engineering. Builders drawn to formal logic and first principles who want to ground their work in enduring questions of truth.
Current offering
Level 1: Diploma in 'Aqliyyat
The opening cohort begins with the Diploma in 'Aqliyyat: seven courses across aqida and kalam, logic, tasawwuf, and usul. Later certificate levels are mapped publicly, but only Level 1 is currently offered.
Tuition is $2,500, payable in full or in five interest-free monthly payments of $500.
Faculty
Learn how to think like
a scholar of the tradition.
Our teaching faculty includes Dr. Abdurrahman Mihirig, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Christ Church, University of Oxford, with graduate training from Harvard and LMU Munich and traditional study under scholars including Shaykh Saeed Fodeh and Dr. Aref Nayed.
OxfordHarvardLMU MunichIbn Haldun
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Program path
One academy, three
advancing certificates.
Certificate in Kalam and 'Aqliyyat
96 lectures introducing later kalam, hikma, adab al-bahth, usul, and bilingual spiritual reasoning.
Preview Level 2 โAdvanced Certificate
176 lectures in advanced commentary, usul, language, and mature verification.
Preview Level 3 โSeptember 12, 2026
Begin with the first level.
Enrollment is focused on the Diploma in 'Aqliyyat cohort. Students enter through the first level before advancing into the later certificates.
Enroll in Level 1