The Medina Way courses open for registration!

The Medina Way is now offering a scholastic Maliki fiqh serie

This is a methodology based on the traditional West African system used by many leading scholars for centuries in regions like Mauritania, Mali, and Senegal all the way down to Sudan. This methodology takes students through a series of texts in orderly fashion starting from more basic texts to more advanced.

Now open for registration at http://www.themedinaway.com

Traditional Maliki Fiqh Series Mukhtasar Al-Akhdari (Level 1)

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Teacher: Ustadh Abdus Shakur Brooks

Starts: October 1st /2010 Duration: 12 weeks

Cost: $150 US Discount: 120 US (Until September 14th /2010)

Registration ends: Sunday, September 26th /2010

This text is written by Abdur Rahman Al-Akhdari a famous Maliki scholar of the 1oth century A.H. This text covers purification of the heart, ritual purification and prayer. Some of the special traits of this book are that it provides the beginner with fundamental knowledge of fiqh and some very useful principles of fiqh that make it easy for the student to conceptualize legal rulings and make them easy to memorize. Furthermore, it covers the area of making the prostration of forgetfulness (sujood al-sahw) in detail and how to correct the prayer if there is a mistake which is essential for both advanced and common learners.

Al-Murshid Al-Mu'een (Level 2) (Part)
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Teacher: Ustadh Abdus Shakur Brooks

Starts: October 1st /2010 Duration: 12 weeks

Cost: $150 US Discount: 120 US ( Until September 14th /2010)

Registration ends: Sunday, September 26th/2010

This text is written by Abu Malik Abdul Wahid bin Ahmad bin Ali Ibn A’shir who died in the year 1040 A.H in Fez, Morocco. This text covers Islamic belief, usool al-fiqh, the five pillars of Islam and tasawwuf. Some special traits of this book are that it was written in poetry which makes it easy to memorize. Furthermore, in such a short book many issues of the deen are covered. Seeing that this text covers Islamic belief, usool al-fiqh, the five pillars of Islam and tasawwuf; it covers the three core aspects of religion: Faith (Iman) Practice (Islam), and inward and outward excellence (Ihsan). Thus studying this text provides the student with a well-rounded amount of information in regards to his religion.

Students Benefit
Some of the benefits of this system are that the student inherits a traditional learning system that has been depended upon for centuries by countless leading scholars in West Africa which is known for it’s dominate understanding of Malik fiqh. Furthermore, instead of learning just the rules of fiqh, the student also learns how to think from a fiqh perspective according to the methodology of traditional scholarship. Moreover, when a student learns through a traditional system the information they gain in well organized and comprehended, contrary to the student who studies random texts not having any idea how the texts corroborate which often leads many students to confusion unaware as to why one scholar mentions an issue in one fashion and another scholar in another fashion. When studying through a traditional system such as this one all of these matters are taught and explained by the teacher who has an overall system in mind for the student.

About Ustadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (host of The Medina Way Online)

Abdus Shakur Brooks is a Canadian from Toronto who converted to Islam in 1998. In 2000 he began his correspondence in traditional studies with a learned Hanafi scholar. In 2003 he traveled to the renowned school Mazharatul-Uloom in India where he spent a short period of time. Since 2004 he has been carrying out his studies mainly in Maliki fiqh , Arabic grammar and other sciences overseas with various teachers ranging from West Africa, Yemen, Syria, Turkey and Egypt. Abdus Shakur Brooks established The Medina Way in

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This post has been edited by Themedinaway: 06 September 2010 - 09:29 PM