Islam Academy: Free Islamic Courses

Islam, īmān and iḥsān as three dimensions of one hadith, with time as the fourth. Why the post-colonial Muslim world fixed on the outward dimension alone, from Napoleon in Egypt to the Marxists of the 1970s who became the Islamists of the 1980s. Then... more

Why qadr is the most misunderstood concept in the tradition, and why khayr and sharr are abundance and want before they are good and evil. Then a long digression into the Sharīʿah — the five things it preserves, what a fatwā actually is, lineage, hon... more

The hadith of Jibrīl gives four dimensions within Islam, and īmān is the vertical one: the word itself means to make oneself safe and secure. What lā ilāha illallāh negates before it affirms; the books as reminders and the messengers as wakeful being... more

The prayer as an act of the body, and the creatures that know their own praise; the ablution, the rights of women in Muslim law, and the cosmology of right and left. Then zakāt as the purification of wealth and the right of the poor, with its eight r... more

Why a tradition should be allowed to speak for itself before its practitioners are judged, and what the Qurʾān means by Islam: all creation in submission, the religion of Abraham and Isaac, the religion perfected in the Prophet Muhammad, and the surr... more

Why the Qurʾān is a recital before it is a book, and why that matters for a people who had no book at all. The cave on the mountain of light and the first word, iqraʾ; the themes of the Meccan years; memorisation as the primary means of preservation;... more