About The Book
This is the English translation of two important works by Shaykh Ruqayya bint Ibrahim Niasse. It is a treatise on Islamic primary knowledge (Fiqh) and also motherly advice to young Muslim women.
It has been included in the educational curriculum of 3 countries and is an amazing scholarly work written by one of Islam's most luminous female scholars.
Book I
- Simplification of Primary (Islamic)
- Education for African Children
Book II
- Motherly Advice for the Muslim Girl
- Concerning Religious and Worldly Life
About The Author
Shaykha Ruqayya Niass is one of West Africa's most renowned Islamic scholars. She was born on the night her father moved with his nascent community to Medina in the north of Kaolack (sine-Saloum) at the end of 1930. Named after Ruqayya, Prophet Muhammad's daughter, her father told her: "I named you Ruqayya—ascension—since I have never ceased to ascend in the Divine Real."
She learned the Holy Qur'an from her father's Mauritanian disciple, Mouhammad Rabbani. After committing the Holy Book to memory, she started learning Fiqh from her father, and Arabic grammar from Baye Ahmad Thiam (al-Ajrumiyya, Mulhat al-I'rab, Lamiyat al-Af'al) to later join her father's classes in al-Alfiyya, al-Ihmirar and al-Maqamat (assemblies of al-Hariri in the early fifties).
The Shaykha has since been a teacher of thousands of people in both the exoteric and esoteric sciences of Islam.
