Date: Every Thursday
Time: 7:30 PM
Target Age: 16+
Meeting ID: 814 7229 6474 Passcode: 674582
Discussions will involve Islamic epistemology (how we know what we know), the historical stages of how and when the Quran and Hadith were written and transmitted, how they were critiqued by early Muslim scholars, and how they can be objectively critiqued today.
No opinions or fore drawn conclusions will be proselytized: the goal is to provide awareness and inculcate direct and healthy personal interaction between Muslims and the primary sources of Islam, the Quran and Hadith.
By the end of the course, active participants should understand exactly what the Quran that they hold in their hands is, where it comes from, why they can trust it, and how they can start to understand it; they will also know why they can trust authentic Hadith, how to use secondary research to judge whether or not a certain Hadith is authentic, and know how to go about understanding a Hadith and how to apply its teachings in their life.
The following two textbooks will be followed, but not strictly:
Wassalam,
Farid
Bio:
Ustadh Farid Dingle is an Anglo-Swiss teacher of the Islamic sciences with over a decade of study in the fields of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), Hadith studies, Quran studies, Quran exegesis, theology, and Arabic linguistics and literature. His teachers include Dr Amjad Rasheed, Head of the Faculty of Shafi'i fiqh in WISE University, Jordan, Dr Ahmad Hasanat, Secretary General of the Fatwa Department of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Shaykh Ali Hani, a specialist in Quranic exegesis and Arabic linguistics, and Dr Usama Nimr, lecturer in hadith studies. He holds a BA in Arabic Language and Literature from the University of Jordan, and a post-graduate certificate in Shafi'i fiqh from WISE University, Jordan.
