Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 6 Apr 2021 › Segment 19 of 39
Where can I learn the Maliki school in English?
mazhab school of law madhahib mazahib madhaahib maaliki malikite malikiyyah hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school muftis haraam forbidden shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs deobandis deoband deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinLearning the Maliki school in English: translators, teachers and texts
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth suggests the translations of Aisha Bewley, Hamza Yusuf's recorded lessons on a basic Maliki text, Shaykh Ali Laraki's translation, and teachers such as Abdalhaqq Bewley.
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Asked for a good source to learn the Maliki school in English, Mufti Abu Layth says Aisha Bewley translated several books, once available on a website he is unsure still exists. He says Hamza Yusuf recorded a foundational Maliki text, which he believes was al-Murshid al-Mu'in [?], with a Mauritanian shaykh on some twenty cassettes that he studied as a teenager, that Shaykh Ali Laraki [?] has translated some Maliki material, and that a few people teach it in the UK, among them Abdalhaqq Bewley, Aisha Bewley's husband. He says Malikis are usually people who think out of the box, though some, like other clergy, are only about control, and names Hamza Maqbool as a Maliki whose teaching he says is no different from that of an average Hanafi Deobandi.
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Um all right. What's a good source to learn about the Maliki Mhab in English? That's a good point. Um right. I do know that in the past um Aisha Buli had translated several books into English but I'm not sure how readily avail they used to all just be on a website but I think I'm not sure if a website is still there Hamza Ysef had a few works from Malik translated um I'm pretty sure he had murid which is a a baseline text it's a foundation text within the Maliki Madhab
that was in English because I heard it. I actually went through his whole when I was first learning, you know, many when I was just a teenager. They were in cassettes then. Remember the audio cassettes? So, he had like I I must have had like 20s something cassettes and him and a Moritanian sheh were going over the whole thing. I don't know if that's still available, but it was available then. Um, I know Sheh Ali Laraki has a uh a translation of um of some Malik in English.
There are a few people that teach it in the UK. I'm pretty sure around I think around Bradford or is it Leeds? Maybe in Leeds. Um you've got uh Sheikh um Abdul Hak Buli who's the husband of Aisha Buli. He teaches Maliki.
You've got uh I mean there are several people who are Maliki. I mean even she abd you'll be surprised the Malikis are usually these thinkers that think out of the box or they're different even if they don't think. Some of them may sometimes tow a a similar to conserve traditional like not traditional but conservative kind of line like Sheha Yusf but he's still very different. Um so usually these people are Maliki but you do get some weird Malikis as well because it's religion with a capital R.
So you're going to get some people who are just they just basically they're just like the every other member of the clergy. It's just about power control. They're not in it for this kind of game of thinking and being. They they just want you to just follow and and and they will do the same thing with Maliki that Hannifies will do or other people. It's just about don't you dare question. I'm not allowed to question. You know, you've got people beloved.
You've got Chri Cupcake [laughter] Hamzaw Makbul. He's a malakei, but I don't know why on earth he's [laughter] a malakei, but he's a maliki. But it really there's no difference between what he would teach and what just an average hanfi theundi would teach. There's no difference at all. Um but so you do get people like that and you get some malikes that are very very harsh and they want to control make everything haram.
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