September 2026 · Birmingham
A liberal-arts intensive for madrasa graduates and students of Islam: a disciplined encounter with the ideas, texts and institutions that shape the modern world.
Political institutions, economic theories and philosophical assumptions influence almost every area of contemporary life. PPE gives students the arts required to meet them: grammatical precision, logical discipline, rhetorical judgement and the patient reading of primary texts and their commentaries.
Grammar, logic and rhetoric · Arabic and classical intellectual traditions · Formal and dialectical reasoning · The quadrivium as number, proportion and order · Foundations of philosophy · Ethics and epistemology · Primary texts, commentary and seminar.
Classical Islamic political thought · Great works of European political philosophy · Liberalism, Marxism and post-colonial thought · Law, society and authority · Microeconomics and macroeconomics · Finance, development and Islamic economic thought.
Ibn Khaldun and civilisational theory · Philosophy of history · Governance, inequality and the common good · Technology, climate and society · Research and writing · Capstone project · Presentation, discussion and final assessment.
A demanding part-time programme
Lectures model disciplined reasoning; seminars test it. Teaching is supported by substantial independent reading, writing and preparation.
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