Zaytuna College Canon Lecture Series

About the Canon Lecture Series

The Zaytuna College Canon comprises the foundational primary texts that shape the intellectual history of the Islamic and Western traditions as well as commentaries that serve as tools to unlock those primary texts. In this series, our faculty members demonstrate why these texts have enjoyed the status conferred to them by our scholarly tradition and provide an account of how the texts have earned their place in the Zaytuna curriculum. Specifically, the series aims to address the history of a canonical text in terms of its abridgments, its architecture and composition, the debates and commentaries it generated, as well as how its author engages in salient issues of the discipline. Exclusive online access to the series lectures are available to 12000 Strong members as a special membership benefit.