Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 5

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

Part 5 of the Sisters Lesson from Surah Zukhruf. Delivered in Harare, Zimbabwe. 

Stories for kids podcast new episode. A traditional story from Persia about a smart young woman and a mean sultan. 

‎﷽ 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. 

This lesson covers the names of various family members.