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Muslims & Moonsighting
A free webinar with Shaykh Akram Nadwi on the objectives and approaches to sighting the new moon.
Jinn Possession, Evil Eye, and Black Magic
A one-day course with Shaykh Akram Nadwi on separating reality from myths of supernatural...
Quran-Bible Conversation
Prof. Saqib Hussain, an expert in Qur'anic intertextuality, will introduce the theory of Qur'anic-...
Jibril Programme
This new 3-month course is designed to teach Muslims the essentials of din, as articulated in the Hadith of Jibril. The course will cover...
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Reading the Qur’an During Menstruation
There are two predominant scholarly opinions regarding this issue. In the following response, I will outline these opinions in detail and then offer my reflections and some practical guidance that Muslim women might consider adopting.
read moreInheritance: a general overview of the laws
Concepts and arguments related to inheritance are in many respects so finely detailed and entangled that it is difficult to keep in mind the general principles and goals of inheritance laws and customs in Islam. These principles and goals are, as we should expect,...
read moreTaysir
Taysir means taking the easier path to manage a difficulty. As a term in Islamic scholarship, it means giving advice or a ruling in favour of the easier option, provided the matter is one in which preference between options is allowable.Taysir is very much...
The successful life
The successful life as measured in this world does not secure safe passage into the favour of God in the hereafter. The good or virtuous life as measured in this world does not secure safe passage into the favour of God in the hereafter. In both matters,...
Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars of Islam
ASI is launching an exclusive book campaign to enable individuals, researchers and institutions to gain access to Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s world famous Al-Wafa’ bi Asma’ al-Nisa’. The 43-volume compilation of female hadith scholars and narrators is a specialist work in...