The event featured leading international scholars with the keynote speakers Dr Abbas Amanat, an eminent historian of Iran and the Persianate world, who has taught at Yale University for almost four decades, and Dr Jo-Ann Gross from The College of New Jersey, an authority on Sufism and the Ismaili tradition in Central and South Asia. Starting off the event was the introduction of CLS by Dr Nauman Naqvi, Assistant Professor of CLS. "One of the goals of the new programme is to reinvent, re-imagine and revive the knowledge systems that have become marginalized and what the study of 'humanities' has been in the past and in the 'West'", as explained by Dr Nur Sobers-Khan, Director of the CLS Programme at Habib University. Marking the launch of this new, interdisciplinary programme, Habib University held a day-long symposium titled 'Critical Knowledge: Pioneering Comparative Liberal Studies at Habib University', which discussed recovering local spiritual and historical traditions, investigating unexplored primary sources, and engaging in traditional or sacred arts and music. Habib University inaugurated a first-of-its-kind programme and major, Comparative Liberal Studies (CLS), an undergraduate programme bringing together four branches of knowledge within the neglected field of humanities, namely: History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Literature.
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