Applications for our

2025/26

Advanced Diploma

are now open

BT Academy

ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN THE WESTERN TRADITION AND ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

Our lead instructors, Hasan Spiker and Paul Williams

BT Academy provides a new kind of educational experience in philosophy and theology, carefully designed to meet the unique needs of our time.

We aim to empower students to become more than mere unadventurous, conventional contributors, but true shapers of contemporary philosophical and theological discourse, during a time of extraordinary change and opportunity.

WHAT BT ACADEMY STUDENTS SAY

  • BT Academy provides a refreshing and long awaited third space that is neither the traditional Islamic seminary nor the modern secular academy, offering students with some grounding in both/ either pedagogical traditions the opportunity to fill intellectual lacunae not addressed in either, all in accordance with one’s ability and proclivities.

    Zakir Hussein Gul, Doctoral candidate in Persian Studies at Harvard University

    (BT Academy AdvDipTh 24/25)

  • If you don't know much about these subjects, this course will astonish you. If you know something about these subjects, this course will astonish you with further knowledge, understanding and insights. This course will provoke you into exploring your Muslim identity But the real gem of this course is the opportunity to get to know Paul Williams and Hasan Spiker.

    Junaid Khan, working in healthcare technology, specialising in analytics, data science and AI.

    (BT Academy AdvDipTh 24/25)

  • What this course offers is exactly what the Islamic world needs. The vast majority of Muslims have neither an understanding of their own tradition (because they’ve been cut off) nor do they understand the Western world. This course offers exactly that!

    Asim Wadoodi, Software Developer

    (BT Academy AdvDipTh 24/25)