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Author: Dr Ovamir Anjum

Uwaymir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo. He is also professor of Islamic Intellectual History at Qatar University. He studies the connections between theology, ethics, politics, and law in classical and medieval Islam, with a subfocus on its comparisons with western thought. Related fields of study include Islamic philosophy and Sufism. His dissertation, published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press, is entitled Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment. His translation of Ibn al-Qayyim's Madârij Al-Sâlikîn is forthcoming.
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Rulings Regarding Zakat Al-Fitr: A Cleansing and Enriching Obligatory Charity

Rulings Regarding Zakat Al-Fitr: A Cleansing and Enriching Obligatory Charity (part 2)

We continue from Part 1, wherein was discussed the meaning and purpose of this pillar of Islamic faith, as well as modern equivalencies and who is required to pay Zakat Al-Fitr. When is the Zakat Al-Fitr Payment Due? Imam Shâfiʿi and Imam…
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Dr. Ovamir Anjum, The Crisis of Authority Among Muslims: Rediscovering Islamic Tradition

The Crisis Of Authority Among Muslims: Rediscovering Islamic Tradition | Dr Ovamir Anjum

What Does a (Good) Tradition Do A TRADITION SEPARATES the good answers to the problems it is concerned with from the bad ones, and further develops the good answers and prunes the bad ones. This dynamic of questioning, disagreement, and struggling to…
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The Station of Al-I‘tisâm

Translation From Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) of Ibn Al-Qayyim

The Station of Al-I‘tisâm AFTER THE STATION of repentance (tawba), the heart ascends to the station of i’tisâm. In Arabic, al-i‘tisâm, means to ‘hold fast to, and seek refuge with, that which protects you and prevents harm and fear.’ In the Book…
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Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Remembrance (Thikr) | Part 2

The Example of the Focused THE PEOPLE OF remembrance are ahead of all others. This is as Muslim narrated in his Ṣaḥîḥ in the ḥadîth of Al-ʿAlâ’, on the authority of his father, who reported on the authority of Abû Hurayrah that the…
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Embarrassed to Follow Islam - Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

Embarrassed to Follow Islam | Dr Uwaymir Anjum

SOMETIME AGO, I read a column in a major media outlet by a Muslim professor of political science in the United States who was hailed as a ‘progressive’ Muslim. He had stopped going to the local masjid, he proudly explained, because his…
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The Rise of Historical Writing in Islam (2): The Role of ‘Urwah ibn Al-Zubayr

The Rise of Historical Writing in Islam (2): The Role of ‘Urwah ibn Al-Zubayr

WITHIN THE FIRST century and a half of the beginning of Islam, three distinct traditions of historical writing came into being: Madinan School: Hadith (Maghazi and Seerah) Iraqi School: Tribal partisan Lore (known as Ayyam Al-‘Arab–glorifying the pre-Islamic events and victories) Yemeni…
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Islamic Tradition (1) | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

WHAT IS ISLAMIC “tradition”? Why and how has it been neglected? Why do we still need it in our modern world? What is the value of unity and diversity in Islam and how can these be maintained and kept in balance? We…
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Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Remembrance (Thikr) | Part 3

On Remembering to Invoke Allah When One Forgets THE AUTHOR OF Manâzil Al-Sâ’irîn, ʿAbdullâh Al-Anṣârî Al-Harawi [d. 482/1089] said: “Allah Almighty said: Yet remember your Lord, if you forget (Sûrat Al-Kahf, 18:24), “that is, when you forget other than Him, and forget yourself…
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Rulings regarding Repentance (1)

Translations from Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) by Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim

 Rulings regarding Repentance (1) “All is well that ends well.” The sins of a person may outnumber and nullify his earlier good deeds; if, however, he repents sincerely, his earlier good deeds return to his account. This is because his good deeds…
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The Servant and His Relationship with the Angel and with the Devil

Translation from Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) by Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim

 The Servant and His Relationship with the Angel and with the Devil ONE OF THE punishments that sinful deeds are bound to inflict on the servant is that they keep him away from the angel put in charge of him, who is…
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