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The Islamic Scholarship Programmes
Upcoming Short Courses
Quranic Contexts: Asbab al-Nuzul
This one-day short course taught by Shaykh Akram Nadwi will explore some of the various perspectives and approaches to ‘Asbab al-Nuzul’, the contexts of revelation of the Quran. Shaykh Akram will compare and contrast traditionally held opinions with those of Maulana...
Muqaddimah of ibn al-Salah
Kitab Ma’rifat anwa’ Ilm al-Hadith, better known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn al-Salah, is a well-known intermediate level text on the science of Usul al-hadith. For students familiar with the Arabic language and have covered beginners texts in hadith methodology, this...
Tafsir Series
As a continuation of our previous tafsir series, this course will be held over three months with Shaykh Akram Nadwi. Two important chapters (surahs) of the Quran will be studied with theological, legal and spiritual emphases.
Tafsir al-Kashshaf
al-Zamakhshari’s al-Kashshaf is one of the most important Qur’anic commentaries of all time, and probably the greatest linguistic commentary of the Qur’an, focusing on grammatical and rhetorical analysis. It is one of the most influential tafsirs, and has been quoted...
Popular On Demand Courses
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This course focuses on the essential principles of Qur’anic exegesis posited by Ibn Taymiyyah in his Al-Muquaddimah fi Usul al-Tafsir ...
This course provides students with the essential aspects of Scripture and rules of interpretation, so as to avoid erring in ...
This course seeks to clarify critical questions on the treatment and status of women in Islam. It addresses some of ...
This course provides a detailed commentary on the last 10 surahs of the Quran, from Surah al-Fil to Surah al-Nas. ...
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The Classical persistent western attitude to the natural world
1- The natural world is world as given. This world includes the human being before it is influenced by other human beings. In other words, the natural world includes the human being as an animal, not as an human. 2- This distinction between animal and human echoes...
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The Qur’an should not be valued as merely a sacred object
1. Allah says in the Qur’an about the Qur’an, that it is a self-consistent, coherent message from the Creator to the most favoured among His creatures. He also says of it that it is the final revelation of His will and purpose for mankind, the completion and...
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Modern science seeks power, not wisdom
Modern science is dedicated to explaining events and processes in the natural world, most of the time by means of some degree of mastery of the chain of the causes and effects that lead to specific events and processes. The problem with this approach is two-fold....
Over-definition of legal concepts
Many scholars infer from instances of Qur’anic or Prophetic ruling, what they think is the common or universal principle which governs these rulings. For example, the notion that ‘the state of woman is covering’ is derived from specific rulings about how Muslim women...
Reflections on how Muslims disagree, dispute and divide,why they should stop doing so, and some simple ways to live with and benefit from those disagreements
Having a debate with someone you disagree with and having a conversation with them are not the same thing. People perhaps think that a debate is just the same as a conversation with the addition of a few rules and procedures. For example, whereas