The Nour Foundation explores meaning and commonality in human experience with the aim of engendering a greater spirit of mutual understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings worldwide. This exploration of shared commonalities is founded on a multidisciplinary and consilient approach that blends the sciences and the humanities to encompass larger questions of meaning and values. The conception of the Foundation was inspired by the philosophy of the late Ostad Elahi, a contemporary thinker and jurist who devoted the whole of his life to investigating the classic existential questions of humankind: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here? And where are we going? Such questions have been discussed for millennia, with as many answers and variations as there are peoples and cultures. The central objective of the Nour Foundation is to stimulate rational discourse on these existential questions from an interdisciplinary perspective that is rooted not only in sound academic theories, but in the shared commonality of our personal experience as well.
