- $180 ($210 after Apr 02, 2025)
- Instructor (Shāfiʿī Fiqh): Shaykh Chad Earl
- Instructor (Ḥanafī Fiqh): Imam Abdur Rahman Bashir
- Prerequisites: USL 101 or Audit Policy
- Apr. 3 – May. 29, 2025
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Timings: Apr 2-May 15 every Thursday &
May 20, 27 Tuesdays, and May 22 & 29 Thursday - 6:00pm to 9:00pm - Location: IACC (In-person and online)
NOTE: To receive credit for this course, you must attend at least 70% of the classes in-person (i.e. 10 lectures). Students who attend less than 10 lectures will be switched to auditors.
Course Description
“Whoever Allah wishes good for, He gives them a deep understanding [fiqh] of their Deen.”
– Bukhari
“It is neither the meat nor the blood [of sacrificial animals] that reaches God. Instead, what reaches Him is the piety [taqwā] from within you.” (al-Ḥajj, 23:37)
“The Law without the Truth is ostentation, and the Truth without the Law is hypocrisy.”
– ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī
In this course, students will learn the legal rulings pertaining to purification, prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage based on a classic primer in the madhhab of their choice: Ḥanafī or Shāfiʿī.
Course Objectives
- To learn what Islamic law is all about in general, and the fiqh of the schools of Imām Abū Ḥanīfa and Imām Shāfiʿī in particular
- To appreciate the complexity and precision of Islamic law, and the meticulousness of our scholars
- To admit our own ignorance, and the need for learning
- To understand the difference between legal validity and divine acceptance
- To cultivate a desire to improve the quality of our worship
Textbooks
Required:
Recommended:
- For Ḥanafī students: Shurunbulali, Hasan. Maraqi I-Saadat (Ascent to Felicity). Faraz A Khan, Translator. Published by White Thread Press, First Edition 2010. ISBN 978-1-933764-09-2
- For Shāfiʿī students: Furber, Musa, The Accessible Conspectus. Islamosaic.
Recommended:
- For Ḥanafī students: Ibn Yusuf, Abdur Rahman. Fiqh al Imam. 3rd Revised Edition 2003, ISBN 0-9728358-0-6
- For Shāfiʿī students: Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, al-Ghazali
- $180 ($210 after Apr 02, 2025)
- Instructor (Shāfiʿī Fiqh): Shaykh Chad Earl
- Instructor (Ḥanafī Fiqh): Imam Abdur Rahman Bashir
- Prerequisites: USL 101 or Audit Policy
- Apr. 03 – May. 29, 2025
-
Timings: Apr 2-May 15 every Thursday &
May 20, 27 Tuesdays, and May 22 & 29 Thursday - 6:00pm to 9:00pm - Location: IACC (In-person and online)
-
NOTE: To receive credit for this course, you must attend at least 70% of the classes in-person (i.e. 10 lectures). Students who attend less than 10 lectures will be switched to auditors.
“Whoever Allah wishes good for, He gives them a deep understanding [fiqh] of their Deen.”
– Bukhari
“It is neither the meat nor the blood [of sacrificial animals] that reaches God. Instead, what reaches Him is the piety [taqwā] from within you.” (al-Ḥajj, 23:37)
“The Law without the Truth is ostentation, and the Truth without the Law is hypocrisy.”
– ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī
In this course, students will learn the legal rulings pertaining to purification, prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage based on a classic primer in the madhhab of their choice: Ḥanafī or Shāfiʿī.
- To learn what Islamic law is all about in general, and the fiqh of the schools of Imām Abū Ḥanīfa and Imām Shāfiʿī in particular
- To appreciate the complexity and precision of Islamic law, and the meticulousness of our scholars
- To admit our own ignorance, and the need for learning
- To understand the difference between legal validity and divine acceptance
- To cultivate a desire to improve the quality of our worship
Required:
- For Ḥanafī students: Shurunbulali, Hasan. Maraqi I-Saadat (Ascent to Felicity). Faraz A Khan, Translator. Published by White Thread Press, First Edition 2010. ISBN 978-1-933764-09-2
- For Shāfiʿī students: Furber, Musa, The Accessible Conspectus. Islamosaic.
Recommended:
- For Ḥanafī students: Ibn Yusuf, Abdur Rahman. Fiqh al Imam. 3rd Revised Edition 2003, ISBN 0-9728358-0-6
- For Shāfiʿī students: Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, al-Ghazali
