The Nocturnal Journey & Heavenly Ascension
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Muhtar HollandIhsan Muhammad
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About The Book
This is a commentary from a sufi perspective, of the famous Hadith detailing the events of the Isra and Mir'aj or Nocturnal Journey and Heavenly Ascension of the Holy Messenger of Allah.
This commentary was done by one of Islam's brightest stars and spiritual leaders, Shaykh Muhammadou Mahy Aliou Cisse, grandson of the esteemed Shaykh al-Islam al-Hajj Ibrahim Niasse.
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About the author
Mahy Cisse: Shaykh Muhammad al-Mahi Ali Cisse, hafidhahullah, known to his students and disciples as Shaykh Mahy, is a contemporary scholar and an accomplished Shaykh of the Tijani Order. He resides in Madina Baye, Kaolack, Senegal, and has students across the world. At the age of twelve, he completed memorization of the Qur'an under the supervision of Mauritanian scholar Abdullah Ould Rabbani. He then studied extensively in the Majalis al-Ilm (scholarly assemblies) under his father, grounding himself in the traditional Islamic sciences. He later traveled to Egypt and enrolled at al-Azhar University, where he lived for ten years and graduated in 1996 with honors in Arabic Language and Islamic Studies. He is currently the Director of Studies at the African American Islamic Institute. He is the author of works on the Isra' and Mi'raj, including The Nocturnal Journey and Heavenly Ascension and The Isra' and Mi'raj: The Night Journey and Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
About the translator
Muhtar Holland: Muhtar Holland (1935-2010 CE) was an English translator whose patient, faithful renderings opened a large body of classical Islamic literature to English readers. He was born in the city of Durham in northeast England and was drawn from school onward to the study of languages, reading Arabic and Turkish at Oxford and learning Russian during national service in the Royal Navy. He embraced Islam in 1969, taking the name Muhtar, after a period connected to the Subud movement.\n\nOver the following decades he held academic and research positions at the University of Toronto, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (with a period studying Islamic law in Cairo), and Universiti Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur, and he served as a senior research fellow at the Islamic Foundation in Leicester and as director of a translation center in New York.\n\nHis most enduring contribution was an extensive series of translations of the discourses and writings of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, among them Revelations of the Unseen (Futuh al-Ghaib), The Sublime Revelation (al-Fath al-Rabbani), Utterances (Malfuzat), and The Removal of Cares (Jalaʾ al-Khawatir). He also translated treatises of al-Ghazali, including works on inner worship and the celebrated Deliverance from Error. Shaykh Nuh Keller described him as a translator's translator, and many regarded him as foremost among English renderers of these texts. He died on 5 November 2010 in New Jersey.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780991381319
Publisher
Fayda Books
Author
Mahy Cisse
Pages
76
Translator
Muhtar Holland and Ihsan Muhammad
Year Published
2016
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.2 in
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