The Sunna of the Prophet: The People of Fiqh Versus the People of Hadith
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Aisha Bewley
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About The Book
Having published the abridged English translation of Shaykh Muhammad Al-Ghazali's seminal Quranic commentary under the title Journey through the Quran, Dar-al-Taqwa has followed it with the translation of a second important work by the Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali about the nature of the Prophetic Sunna. This is greatly needed in the present situation when there is so much misinformation about Islam in the media, often aided and abetted by well meaning but sometimes misguided Muslims.
Using many examples and his own compendious knowledge, Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali shows how many hadiths have been misunderstood and misused to paint a distorted picture of Islam. With great courtesy and skill, he points out the flaws in the positions adopted by extremists at both ends of the spectrum and allows the true picture of the balance and wisdom which in reality make up the Muhammadan Sunna to emerge.
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About the author
Mohammed al-Ghazali: Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali rahimahullah (1917-1996) was among the most influential Islamic scholars of the twentieth century. Born in Buayra, Egypt in 1917, he studied at the Faculty of Usul al-Din at al-Azhar University. Over the course of his career, he served as Imam and lecturer at al-Maktaba al-Khadra in Cairo, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and was a close associate of Hasan al-Banna. He later served as Undersecretary for Islamic Da'wa in the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf, in addition to numerous other teaching and institutional roles. A prolific writer, he published over sixty books spanning Islamic jurisprudence, theology, Qur'anic studies, and contemporary social issues. He died in 1996.
About the translator
Aisha Bewley: Aisha Bewley (b. 1948 CE) is one of the most prolific and respected translators of classical Arabic Islamic literature into English. Born in the United States, she earned a BA in French and an MA in Near Eastern languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and undertook further study at the American University in Cairo. She embraced Islam in 1968 and has since devoted more than four decades to rendering the texts of the Islamic tradition into clear, accessible English. Her best-known work is The Noble Qur'an, a translation of the meanings of the Qur'an produced with her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley, and first published in 1999. Among her landmark translations are the Muwatta' of Imam Malik ibn Anas (1989), a foundational early collection of hadith and Maliki fiqh, and the multi-volume Tafsir of al-Qurtubi (2003 onward). Her wider output spans creed, law, and Prophetic biography, including abridgements and renderings of works such as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's writing on the soul after death and classical descriptions of the noble character and appearance of the Prophet, peace be upon him. WorldCat records her as author or translator of dozens of works across many editions, and in 2023 she was named Muslim Woman of the Year by The Muslim 500, which recognizes the world's most influential Muslims. Her translations are valued for fidelity to the Arabic and readable English, and remain in steady use among English-speaking students of the tradition.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781870582513
Publisher
Dar al-Taqwa (English)
Author
Mohammed al-Ghazali
Pages
162
Translator
Aisha Bewley
Year Published
2009
Size
W- | H- | D-
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