🧵 MA and PhD scholarships for Islamic research at UK universities.
Jameel Scholarship
MA and PhD.
100% fees.
£15,896 grant for PhD students.
£2,500 towards research (e.g. books, travel, laptop).
Only for studies on Islam in Britain at Cardiff University. cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-the…
100% fees.
£15,009 award.
£1,000 research.
Once in, can access another £1,000 Al-Waleed Scholarship for Arabic, to access Arabic language.
Only for the University of Exeter.
🧵 Glad to see we’re finally having a conversation about fathers abusing their daughters. Muslims have a wrong perception about parenthood as though all parents are infallible god-like beings. This needs to change.
Many young men tend to think their parents are paragons of virtue, only to get married and their wives have to go living hell at home. Yet they still won’t rethink their perception of their parents.
This isn’t to say that having human flaws makes someone a bad person. Not at all. What I’m saying is that if someone is outright narcissistic, abusive or sexually perverted, that’s far beyond a mere flaw. They are bad people who need help.
1) A person enters Islam only by declaring the two statements of faith (shahadatayn). Once the shahadatayn are said, a person is definitively Muslim, even if there are strong indications otherwise.
The Shariʿah considers the utterance of the shahadatayn to be certainty, even though philosophically it may not be the case. We learn this from the following hadith.
🧵 Literally or Literately? Some Thoughts on the Six Fasts of Shawwal
Scholars have long debated the authenticity of the hadith regarding the six fasts of Shawwal. This thread isn’t about that. Those interested in that topic can read @ibn_shabbir’s treatise on it.
Rather, the point of discussion in the current thread is about how to interpret it — that there is a logic that underpins it. Here are two variants of the hadith. Read both carefully, as we’ll be coming back to them.
🧵 The Qurʾan and the right to ‘secular’ education: a thread on critical faithfulness
Anyone who questions women’s rights to education in the modern world should be disregarded. There will always be Muslims with strange views. Leave them be, and continue with what’s mandated in the Qurʾan.
Islam isn’t what Muslims do. It’s what God wants of us. To see if women (or men!) have a right to ‘secular’ knowledge in Islam, all we have to do is take a closer look at the Qurʾan.
🧵 How can I tribute a man who was perhaps the greatest scholar of our generation? A man who didn’t need ‘Shaykh’ or ‘Mufti’ before his name. A man who was an entire league his own. Taha Karaan. May Allah have mercy on his soul.
His unparalleled intelligence, sharp memory and impressive credentials aside, Shaykh Taha Karaan was a man whose warmth of character would melt the hardest of hearts.
In 2017, I had the honour of meeting him one evening in Birmingham. He delivered a talk ‘Preserving Faith in Times of Tribulation’ (link below), then sat down to give time to students and scholars.