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How to study Islam
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10 Mar 2023video
LatestIs studying religious knowledge better than voluntary prayer?
Imam Malik taught that devotion to learning is not lesser than voluntary worship, the paths to God being many, and Mufti Abu Layth urges not underestimating it.
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2021 · 6
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Where can I learn the Maliki school in English?
Mufti 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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14 Mar 2021video
What has Yasir Qadhi said about challenging the giants of the Islamic tradition?
A clip circulated by a critic shows Qadhi saying that even the giants' views should not matter to a true researcher and that scholarship has become regurgitation. Mufti Abu Layth notes that the critic accuses Qadhi of exactly what Qadhi accuses Mufti of.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Has Yasir Qadhi said that the views of great scholars should not bind a researcher?
Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip of Qadhi urging researchers to break from inherited scholarship, and notes that the critic sharing it accuses Qadhi of the modernism Qadhi charges others with.
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How did Shaykh Atabek Shukurov become a scholar?
The guest traces his path from a Soviet childhood through Karachi and Saudi Arabia to eight years in Syria, where he learned to compare inherited cultures with the classical texts.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can a woman become a mufti?
Yes: anyone, a woman included, can become a mufti, but must persevere through often dogmatic institutions, in a field he says is neglected and lacks support.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Should I study at Dar al-Mustafa in Yemen or at al-Azhar?
Mufti Abu Layth would not go to Yemen now because it is unstable; al-Azhar is still an option, and short stints abroad after local study may be best.
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2020 · 8
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why did a medical doctor choose to study religion at Harvard?
The guest describes training as a physician and then turning to Arabic and Islamic studies at Berkeley and Harvard, where he is now a PhD candidate in the study of religion, despite his family's initial unease.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it better to study Islam at a madrasa or at a Western university?
The guest says he chose the critical academic study of Islam over al-Azhar, considering it superior, though he took two years of al-Azhar's online programme and recommends combining traditional and academic study.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Should I go to Madinah University or a madrasa to study Islam?
The guest advises open-minded, critical thinkers against a traditional madrasa, which he says selects, programmes and isolates its students from current scholarship, citing his own rejection by Madinah University.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Should I give up my career plans to study full time at a madrasa?
Mufti Abu Layth would maybe not advise leaving a career for a madrasa: it offers structure and companionship but dumbs students down.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can I learn Islam properly on my own alongside a degree?
Mufti Abu Layth advises keeping the career and studying Islam on the side; those at a madrasa must keep their critical faculties alive themselves.
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3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Who is Dr Khalil Andani and how did he come to study Islam academically?
The guest describes leaving a career in accountancy to study Islamic studies at Harvard, where he finished a PhD and now teaches religion at a US college.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why talk publicly about permissive opinions if it might encourage people?
The guest says knowledge cannot be hidden in the internet age and that people lose trust when scholars conceal it, so it is better to tell them the recorded opinions.
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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How should someone approach studying Islam with an open mind?
The guest urges viewers to study sincerely, without bias or partisanship, across all books; Mufti Abu Layth says the transparency of the early scholars is badly needed today.
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2018 · 2
3 Sep 2018Responding to Refutations
Who should I listen to about political ideas in Islam?
Anyone speaking about ideas in Islam should at least be a scholar; he warns young people away from caliphate groups and points to Hamza Yusuf's lecture calling the caliphate a myth.
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15 Feb 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Is it worth studying at a madrasa?
The madrasa is an excellent place if you bring critical thinking to it, and dogmatising if you do not; studying with several denominations, as he did, helps you see the good and the bad in each.
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2016 · 1
21 Dec 2016video
How can young Muslims be made interested in their faith?
Learn some Arabic and get to know the scholars as the fascinating, humorous people they were, presenting the deen as appealingly as it truly is.
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2014 · 1
2 Jul 2014video
How did Mufti Abu Layth become a mufti?
It was not planned: an interest in Arabic and the Quran grew step by step, taking him from self-study to Syria and then Pakistan, where he trained as a mufti.
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