WOMEN SCHOLARS OF ISLAM - PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

With
'Alimah Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley*
Shaykh Dr Muhammad Akram Nadwi [Nadwatul‘Ulama, OXCIS]*

Date: Wednesday 14th October 2009
Time: 6.15pm - 9pm
Venue: Idea Store Canary Wharf, Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf, London E14 5RB

Despite constituting more than half the Ummah and being the most
active part of it, there are very few Muslim women scholars today.
In earlier generations after the Prophet  the teachers of
many companions, tabi'een, great imams and revivers were women.

How can sisters become real shaykhas or women scholars? What is
required of them and what is happening to women scholars in the
Muslim Ummah today? Is anything being done to help increase their
numbers? Is it practically possible in the West with domestic
obligations and other family commitments?

This short course has been organised and will look at
historical perspectives, the current situation and
the future.

'Alimah Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley is one today's most prolific
translators of classical Arabic works into English. Aisha Bewley
not only understands Arabic but is also aware of the significance
and context of the teachings and history of Islam. Her knowledge
is born of experience and direct transmission, not merely academic
theory and learning by rote. For more than twenty-five years she
has been concerned with making the contents of many classical works
in Arabic more accessible to English-speaking readers for the first
time, including Al-Muwatta' of Imam Malik and Ash-Shifá of Qádi
'Iyad.

Shaykh Dr Muhammad Akram Nadwi studied and taught Shari’a at
the prestigious Nadwatul ‘Ulama (India). A Muhaddith specialising
in ‘Ilm al-Rijal (the study of the narrators of Hadith), Shaykh
Akram has ijaza (licenses) from renowned mashayakh, including
Abul Hasan Ali Al-Nadwi, Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah and Yusuf
al-Qaradawi. He has authored and translated over 20 titles on
Fiqh, Qur’an and Hadith including his monumental 40 volume work on
Al-Muhaddithaat - The Lives of Female Scholars of Hadith. Shaykh
Akram is a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for
Islamic Studies, Oxford University.

The course is open all, men and women.
Limited spaces only and via bookings.

To book for more information please contact:
Tel:  07837 645 758 / 07956 983 609
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