Shaykh Afifi in Blackburn
& Preston
Blackburn
GhazaliSchoolPresents:
Imaam
Ghazali's Letter to a Disciple
Taught
by Dr, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al Akiti*
Sat 28th Feb
2009
6.10pm (After
Maghrib)
Venue:
Masjid e Rizwan
Newton
St
Blackburn
BB1
1NE
Further
Information
07877175585
Preston
Suhba
with Dr, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al Akiti*
(Oxford,UK)
Venue
Iqra Education
Centre
Kent
Street
Preston
PR1
1PE
Saturday
28th February
8.30PM-9.30PM
Brothers
& Sisters Welcome
Information
Line
07984 162
001
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.
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