Usul Academy is an online higher education institution established in 2021 that aims to deliver classical Islamic studies and contemporary subjects through an innovative and flexible approach for students across the globe. Usul Academy currently offers a distinguished Honors Program in Comparative Islamic Studies (BA), in which students will study Academic Arabic, classical Islamic studies as well as social sciences from a comparative perspective.
The Purpose
The mainstream purpose of universities today is to equip students for a professional career by providing instrumental knowledge anchored in the modern/postmodern paradigm. Usul Academy is an initiative that aims to elevate the purpose of knowledge and root students in the Islamic tradition to help them face the challenges of modern life. It aims to fill the gap left by modern universities, and enable students to grow not only intellectually, but spiritually too. The primary principle guiding our institution is Rooted Revival (al-tajdīd al-muʾaṣṣal التجديد المؤصل).
This principle led us to our comparative approach to education: by juxtaposing the traditional Islamic disciplines with contemporary social sciences, we aim to contextualize the former and apply them to major issues of our age.
Our mission is to provide aspiring students with accessible educational opportunities to ground themselves in a holistic and inclusive multiplex perspective in their personal, academic and professional lives.
Our aim is to firmly root students in Islamic principles, values, and methods to equip them with the capacity to critically engage the contemporary challenges of humanity.
