Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 4

In this episode, Leyla sits down with Ali Banisadr, the Tehran-born, New York–based painter whose work hangs in museum collections around the world. His exhibition Temple of the Mind at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (on view through November 8, 2026) is the museum's first-ever artis ...  Show more

In the fifth and final part of our discussion of Attar's Conference of the Birds, Leyla is joined by Omid Arabian of the YOUniversal Center for the poem's climax, as the thirty surviving birds finally reach the Simorgh and discover, through Attar's wordplay on see morgh and seemo ...  Show more

The premise of this podcast is that I am having a conversation with my conscience.That is the male voice you hear; my father.We tackle all things life by going through all the lessons I’ve learned with him as my mentor.The ups, the downs, the pain, and the joy. All of it.My consc ...  Show more

Fourth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series. 

‎﷽ In this lesson, we define the sixth element of the Sayyida Nafīsa Seminary knowledge integration system - Process. We also define Islamic tradition and introduce our final historic inaugural phase - the Metafiqh academia.