Author: Zainab Kabba

Registration information: All classes are free of charge to attend at the College. Space is limited, please register in advance. Classes are organised as a series. Participants are encouraged to attend each session. You must register for each session individually. Registering for one class does not put you on the attendance list for all classes. TUESDAY Al-Nawawī’s Forty Prophetic Reports […]

MONDAY Principles of Islamic Spirituality Taught by: Najah Nadi This class introduces selected aphorisms from a standard primer of Islamic Spirituality, Principles of Islamic Spirituality (Qawāʿid al-taṣawwuf) by the Moroccan jurist Aḥmad ibn Zarrūq (d. 899/1493). The text is written with the objective of “introducing the principles of Islamic Spirituality in a manner that integrates the sacred law (sharīʿa) with […]

Outer and Inner Visions of Poetry 11 – 13 August 2017 This is a weekend programme based at Cambridge Muslim College, designed for creative writers of poetry. The programme combines writing time, discussion, and readings from different genres of poetry. A tutor will discuss poetic devices and terms using poems from Islamic literary tradition, as well as English literature. Participants […]

This two-day programme will explore questions related to gender from the perspective of two intellectual traditions: Western liberalism and the Islamic tradition. In particular, we will highlight the underlying moral visions of these two traditions, considering such questions as: What presuppositions about human nature and the good life does it promote? What kind of human self does it seek to […]

Cambridge Muslim College is again delighted to offer its five-day programme, introducing Western-trained mental health professionals to the philosophy and methodology of psychology from an Islamic perspective. Those successfully completing the programme will be awarded a Certificate in Attendance on Islamic Approaches to Psychology & Psychotherapy. For further information and full course details, please click here: Islamic Approaches to Psychology […]