I'd like to firstly thank you all for reading the article, and then posting your warm comments.

Secondly, I wanted to mention the al-Salam Institute: http://www.al-salam.co.uk/

The al-Salam Institute kindly organised the Bradford event, and they have organised numerous events around the country for Shaykh Akram. Also, they arrange semester courses for Shaykh Akram in Oxford – these have lately included Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, amongst others. Please regularly check their site for updates. They are professional and active, masha-Allah, and deserve our support.

fi amanillah

Andrew Booso

Omar
rawwealth.com

This post demonstrates the validity of pushing for greater literacy in the West and facilitating the means for achieving companionship with scholars. Those people who are studying to be scholars from the West may do well to study this post thoroughly and emphasize the importance of being with people who want to learn -be accessible to the community- in other terms.

Advice to brothers and sisters in the UK:

Do not underestimate the ni'mat that Allah has showered you with as it is clearly manifest.

Allahu Akbar Walilah al Hamd

Abul-Hussein

Date and Time
Saturday 28th March 09
10.30am – 7pm

Venue
1st Floor London Muslim Centre,
Whitechapel Road London E1
Price: Students £10 Employed £15

Bookings http://www.angelwingmedia.net/aw/main/detaileve…

This intensive one day fiqh course covers the obligatory knowledge of Tahara (purification) and Salah (prayer), with plenty of opportunities to ask questions. The course will be based on the highly acclaimed book Al-Fiqh Al-Islami written by Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi.
Based on the classics, Al-Fiqh Al-Islami – one of the fastest selling Islamic book of recent times – is unique in providing students guidance whilst presenting the earliest and strongest positions in the Hanafi School. This course will therefore not only teach you the rules pertaining to the topics but provide you with the framework and evidences upon which they are based.
Students will also have the rare opportunity to listen to a selection of ahadith with its full sanad (chain of transmission) on the topic of Tahara and Salah.

Speaker(s)

Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi is from the Indian city of Lucknow. He is a graduate of the world renowned Nadwatul ‘Ulama (India) where he studied and taught shari’ah. Shaykh Akram is a Muhaddith of the highest calibre who has specialised in ‘Ilm ul Rijal [the study of the narrators of Hadith]. He has Ijaza (licenses) from many of the most renowned scholars of our time
including Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Al-Nadwi, Shaykh Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah and Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. He has a doctorate in Arabic Language and has authored and translated over 20 titles including his monumental 40 volume work on the lives of female scholars of Hadith and Al-Fiqh Al-Islami the first Hanafi Fiqh text to be originally written in English.

SHAH WALIULLAH AND INTRODUCTION TO THE HUJJATULLAHIL BALIGHA

By Shaykh Dr Muhammad Akram Nadwi (Oxford)*

Date: Saturday 25th April 2009
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: Ebrahim College, 80 Greenfield Road, London E1 1EJ

Since the fall of the Moghuls in India, one of the most important
and influential Muslim scholars in Islamic revival in India was
Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi (rh) whose work to this day
still influences most of the Muslim groups and schools of
thought be it Deobandi, Ahle-Hadith, Barelwi and others.
His magnum opus was the Hujjatullahil Baligha, two-volume Arabic
manuscript covering the principles of Islamic revival, which is
more than pertinent in todays society.

This course will cover: Shah Waliullah's life; Establishment of
hadith scholarship in India, Shah Waliullah's role as a reformer, Shah
Waliullah's writings, Hujjatullah al-Balighah: an exposition of the
rationale of Shari`ah and an intellectulal interpretation of hadith,
comparison of this work with earlier writings on the subject, Irtifaq
(sociability) and Siyasat al-madinah (issues related to the civil society),
concept of sa`adah (the success), creeds and devotion, comprehensive
prophethood, ways and method of discussing the meanings of hadith, Shah
Waliullah's legacy.

All welcome but those who consider themselves as “activists” or “students
of knowledge” are highly encouraged to attend. A basic requisite of
the history of Islam in India is recommended but not essential.

To BOOK please visit http://www.islamiccourses.org

*Shaykh Dr Muhammad Akram Nadwi studied and taught Shari’a at the
prestigious Nadwatul ‘Ulama (India). A Muhaddith specialising in
‘Ilm al-Rijal (the study of the narrators of Hadith), Shaykh Akram
has ijaza (licenses) from renowned mashayakh, including Abul Hasan
Ali Al-Nadwi, Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He has
authored and translated over 20 titles on Fiqh, Qur’an and Hadith
including his monumental 40 volume work on Al-Muhaddithaat – The Lives
of Female Scholars of Hadith. Shaykh Akram is a research fellow at the
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University.

Entrance by bookings only as there are limited spaces.

For bookings and further information please contact:
Tel: 07956 983 609
E-mail: courses@islamiccircles.org
Website: http://www.islamiccourses.org