Shaykh Afifi will be teaching The Creed of Imam Al-Sanusi in Banbury
In the Name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful
Shifa Trust is proud to present a great opportunity for learning sacred
knowledge with one of the UK leading scholars Shaykh Afifi al-Akiti.
Shaykh Afifi will be teaching The Creed of Imam Al-Sanusi -Al-Aqidah
Al-Sanusiyya on the last Friday of every month at 8.15pm -9.15pm at Shifa
School, Merton Street, Banbury, OX16 4RP.
The programme will begin on Friday 29 February 2008 and is part of the sacred
sciences programme which also includes lessons with Shaykh Tanveer on
'Transgressions of the Limbs' which takes place every Friday at 7-8pm at Shifa
School.
Details:
8.15-915pm
The last Friday of every month (starting date: Friday 29th February)
Shifa School, Merton Street, Banbury, OX16 4RP
Text:
The book "Matn Umm al-Barahin", or "The Text of the Mother of Proofs"
(al-`Aqidah al-Sanusiyya)
Author:
Imam Abu `Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi al-Husayni al-Maliki, who was
born around 830 of the Hijrah calendar, or about 600 years ago. He was a man of
encyclopaedic knowledge in many fields, including the sciences of belief,
jurisprudence, Prophetic Traditions, logic, and the Qur'an, and he wrote books
on all of them. He was the head of the scholars in Tilmisan (Tlemsen), a
capital of North Africa in Islamic history. It is located in what is Algeria
today.
Biography:
Shaykh Afifi al-Akiti is a Research Fellow in Islamic Philosophy and Theology
at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He has completed his doctoral thesis
at Oxford University, on a newly discovered Arabic manuscript of a previously
unknown theological work by Imam al-Ghazali. He was born in Malaysia and
educated in various madrasas with a long tradition in Shafii fiqh in East Java.
Among his most well known teachers are:
Shaykh Muhammad Yasin al-Fadani,
Shaykh Ibn Mahfuz al-Hajini,
Shaykh Ibn Ashmuni al-Jaruni
and Habib 'Aydarus al-Habshi.
He has translated various works in Malay as well as English; mostly textbooks
that make up the curriculum of a Classical Islamic education, including Imam
al-Bajuri's commentary on the Jawhara, Imam Nawawi al-Bantani on the Jami'a and
his commentary on the Bidaya of Imam al-Ghazali. He has travelled widely, and
notwithstanding the specific ijazas from his training, has also received
general ijazas (for tabarrukan) from teachers beyond his homeland.
The course is free and for those who would like to attend please complete the
registration form which is attached. If you require any additional information
please do not hesitate to contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 07861690567.
For those who are able to take advantage of this great opportunity we look
forward to meeting you; please remember us in your prayers.
Best regards,
SHIFA TEAM
www.ash-shifa.org.uk
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