Contemplating the Quran: A Thematic Thirty-Part Commentary on the Noble Qur'an

About the author

Ahmed Saad al-Azhari: Shaykh Ahmed Saad al-Azhari is an Egyptian-British scholar, writer, teacher, speaker, and poet who hails from a scholarly family whose lineage extends back to the Prophet ﷺ. He memorized the Qur'an at an early age and received his foundation in traditional Islamic sciences under his father, alongside formal studies at al-Azhar University in Cairo, from which he graduated in Islamic studies. After migrating to the United Kingdom, he occupied a number of posts before founding Ihsan Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. He holds authorisation (ijazah) to teach a range of texts, including the works he has studied directly with their authors. He is also the author of 'Al-Badiah Nazm al-Awamil al-Mi'ah' and 'Contemplating the Qur'an: A Thematic Thirty-Part Commentary on the Noble Qur'an.' He continues to teach internationally and resides in the UK.

About the translators

Asim Yusuf: Asim Yusuf hafidhahullah, who writes under the pen-name Talib al-Habib, is a Consultant Psychiatrist recognized as an authority on Islamic Psychology, regularly invited to deliver lectures and seminars on the intersection of Islamic spirituality and mental health. He serves on the advisory panel of the Centre for Islam and Medicine and advises a number of community initiatives and charitable organizations. He is the founder and director of three educational programs: the Path to Salvation Diploma in Classical Islamic Studies, the Sacred Texts Syllabus, and the Islamic Ethics and Global Citizenship Initiative. He has authored four books on diverse aspects of Islam, with a particular focus on classical spirituality, and has received twenty years of rigorous theological training at the hands of leading scholars of Islamic law and spirituality. He holds formal ijazaat authorizing him to instruct students in Islamic thought, granted by over thirty scholars from four continents.

Noor Yusuf: Noor Yusuf is a British poet, author, editor, and translator born in South Africa and raised in the United Kingdom. She is the creator of the Adventures with the Awliya children's series, comprising Beyond the Forest (2019), Through the Blue Gate (2021), and Over Mist and Mountain (2024), adventure narratives woven from the lore of Muslim mystics and saints and exploring themes of spirituality, cultural heritage, and diversity. She co-translated Contemplating the Qur'an: A Thematic Thirty-Part Commentary on the Noble Qur'an (Ihsan Institute, 2017) in collaboration with her father, Shaykh Dr Asim Yusuf, rendering into English a thematic juz-by-juz commentary by Shaykh Ahmed Saad al-Azhari al-Hasani. At the age of fifteen, over just twelve nights, she composed The Soliloquy of the Full Moon (2015), the first original English mawlid, a thousand-line metered epic on the birth of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Initiated into the Chishti Habibi Order under Hazrat Ghulam Muhyi al-Din Kazi, she has spent over a decade in traditional Islamic study and holds authorization to transmit the six canonical hadith works via elevated chains. Her work has earned her three Young Muslim Writers Awards.