Curriculum

Our Approach

Based on the curriculum of the College Program on Islam, the APOI curriculum focuses on the intellectual history of Islam. Through studying intellectual traditions, participants will be able to reflect on the pluralism of Muslim and Ismaili intellectual life across centuries and geographies.

Throughout the camp, participants will engage with the breadth of philosophical thought that emerged within and alongside the Muslim world, from the foundational debates of kalam (speculative theology) and falsafa (peripatetic philosophy) to the development of Sufi & Irfani mystical and ethical traditions. Participants will come to understand how Muslim thinkers across diverse schools have grappled with questions of being, knowledge, ethics, and the relationship between reason and revelation.

Additionally, participants will also have the chance to explore the diversity of Ismaili thought across history — from the early and influential Ismaili intellectual achievements of the Fatimid era and the contributions of figures like Nasir-i Khusraw, to the ideas and worldviews expressed in the ginans. Participants will learn about the remarkable diversity of Ismaili intellectual production across regional and historical contexts, and its sustained engagement with the wider Islamic intellectual inheritance.