When The Study Quran project was first offered to Seyyed Hossein Nasr, he declined.1Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an eminent Islamic philosopher in academia. He did his Master’s degree in Geology and Geophysics at M.I.T, and PhD in History of Science and Learning from Harvard, at the age of 25. See his biography from Closer to […]
Your Life Story: Learning from the ‘Unsuccessful’ in Life
As university students, one of the most useful habits is listening to each life story that others share with you. Instinctively, you want to listen only to the ‘successful’ people: the artists with multi-million followers, the scholars who shift paradigms, or the millionaire entrepreneurs who started from nothing. After all, we can only learn success […]
Happiness Lessons from Harvard’s Research
Harvard scientists have tracked 724 men throughout their adulthood for a study on happiness The participants were teenagers with varied backgrounds, from the rich Harvard sophomores to the poorest Boston boys who didn’t have proper running water at home. Just like many […]