Advice for benefiting from “Infamies of the Soul”
A friend who is teaching Infamies of the Soul asked for additional resources and general advice on teaching the book. I don’t have a lot of advice, but here goes: …
Instructional
Temporal Fixity & Flexibility in Legal Rulings
(n.b. The content for this article comes from a short class on legal maxims, presented in 2014. It provides more information than the earlier article on the abuse of customs.) …
Al-Matbūlī’s Counsel
While working through Shaykh Muḥammad Nanawī al-Jāwī’s commentary on his Naqāwat al-ʿaqīdah, there were a few quotes from Imām al-Shaʿrānī that I remember from his commentary on Shaykh Abū Isḥāq …
Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 05
This episode covers the recommended actions of ablution. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic material as text. Please leave a comment if you notice …
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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 04
This episode covers the obligatory actions of ablution. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic material as text. Please leave a comment if you notice …
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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 03
Since Ramadan is coming, I’m going to skip forward to an episode on fasting. It covers from the beginning of the chapter to the beginning of iʿtikāf. This page includes …
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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 02
This episode covers the sections on tanning hides, using containers and other instruments, and using the toothstick (miswāk). This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic …
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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 01
This episode begins the chapter of purification. It covers the sections on water: the primary means for ritual purification. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding …
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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 00
Somewhere around 2007, I started recording a quick translation of Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī’s Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – which many curricula have as their first Shafiʿi fiqh book. I recorded up …
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Lawful and Unlawful Foods – from Manhaj al-ṭullāb
The following rulings are translated from Shaykh al-Islam Zakariyā al-Anṣārī’s Manhaj al-ṭullāb – his abridgment of Imam al-Nawawī’s Minhāj al-ṭālibīn – with selected notes from his commentary Fatḥ al-wahhāb placed …