Al-Mahdi Institute

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 20d

What is being said when Shia Muslims insist, "we're not that kind of Muslim"? New Thinking Islam: Dr Muhammed Reza Tajri with Dr Emanuelle Degli Esposti on Shia identity, sectarianism and belonging in Britain. 🧵 https://t.co/PuOuIzmU9t

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 1mo

🌀 The Akbarian tradition: how Ibn ʿAjība, al-Qayṣarī & Rūzbihān al-Baqlī systematised kashf — unveiling not as vague inner feeling, but as a structured, classifiable mode of knowing, with its own checks against the literal text. https://t.co/6nrwqWye3e

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 1mo

🫀 Philosophy meets practice: the heart as an epistemic organ, fiṭra as presential consciousness, and a modern study of 41 practitioners linking dhikr & ḥuḍūr al-qalb to insight. Read more or listen to each presentation 👇 https://t.co/xvsDBLRXZe https://t.co/CqwEVFNhXx

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 1mo

🏛️ Institutional authority: is "Sufism" even an indigenous Islamic category — or a product of Orientalist, Traditionalist & Muslim modernist discourse colliding? One panel made the case for al-bāṭiniyya as the more grounded frame. https://t.co/bskTYI4672

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 1mo

📜 Scriptural sources: mystical experience in Shīʿī ḥadīth remains underexplored as primary data — from Nahj al-Balāgha to the Munājāt al-Shaʿbāniyya. Plus: what does it mean that seeing the Prophet in a dream is called "certainly seeing him"? https://t.co/ctemMaWe1G

Al-Mahdi Institute@almahdi_inst· 1mo

📖 Epistemological foundations: does presential (ḥuḍūrī) knowledge really outrank discursive (ḥuṣūlī) cognition? And can taqwā itself act as a filter — regulating which unveilings are trustworthy, and which aren't? https://t.co/qpn5pBnEcK