2018/19 Lecture Series
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Lecture 1: Imam Shamil – 20 October 2018
Lecture 1 - Reading List
- Adair, John. The Leadership of Muhammad. London: Kogan Page Limited, 2010
- al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar. Fath al-Bari – later book Kitab al Ahkam for leadership related hadiths
- Blanch, Lesley. The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus. London: BookBlast Limited, 2015.
- Blanch, Lesley. The Wilder Shores of Love. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010
- Blanch, Lesley. Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist. London: BookBlast ePublishing, 2015
- Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013
- Chirkeisky, Said Efendi. The History of the Tariqas in the Caucasus (Russian)
- Rodinson, Maxime. Muhammad. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2002
- Tolstoy, Leo. Hadji Murat. New York: Vintage Books, 2009
Lecture 2: Imam Malik (RA) – 10 November 2018
Lecture 2 - Reading List
- Bauer, Thomas. The Culture of Ambiguity: A different history of Islam. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2011
- Hirschler, Konrad. Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library: The Ashrafiya Library Catalogue. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016
- Hallaq, Wael. The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity’s Moral Predicament. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013
- Abd-Allah, Umar F. Malik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period. Leiden: Brill, 2013
- Abd al-Barr, Ibn. Kitab al-Tamhid. (Arabic)
Lecture 3: Hajar (AS) – 1 December 2018
Powerpoint presentation: Hagar lecture
Lecture 3 - Reading List
- Greer, Germaine. The Whole Woman. London: Black Swan, 2007
- Warner, Marina. Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
- Robbins, Jill. Prodigal Son/Elder Brother: Interpretation and Alterity in Augustine, Petrarch, Kafka, Levinas. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991
- Williams, Dolores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2013
- Grey, Mary. Feminist Theology: A Critical Theology of Liberation. In The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, ed. Christopher Rowland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
- Kepnes, Steven. The Future of Jewish Theology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
- Shariati, Ali. Hajj – The Pilgrimage. San Jose: Shia-Muslim Association of Bay Area, 2006
- Hammu, Abd al-Majid. Hajar bayn al-hurriyya wa’l-’ubudiyya. 1993 (Arabic)
- Hassan, Riffat. Islamic Hagar and Her Family. 1995
Lecture 4: Nana Asma’u – 12 January 2019
Lecture 4 - Reading List
- Boyd, Jean. The Caliph’s Sister: Nana Asma’u (1793-1865): Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader. Abingdon: Frank Cass Publishers, 1989
- Boyd, Jean and Mack, Beverley B. Collected Works of Nana Asma’u: Daughter of Usman ‘dan Fodio (1793-1864). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997
- Boyd, Jean and Mack, Beverley B. One Woman’s Jihad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000
- Boyd, Jean and Mack, Beverley B. Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u (1793-1864). Markfield: Kube Publishing Ltd, 2013
Lecture 5: William Williamson – 9 February 2019
Lecture 5 - Reading List
- Bauer, Thomas. The Culture of Ambiguity: A different history of Islam. Berlin: Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2011
- Quilliam, Abdullah. The Faith of Islam: An Explanatory Sketch of the Principal Fundamental Tenets of the Muslim Religion. Liverpool: Wilmer Brothers & Co. Ltd., 1892
- Doughty, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1921
- Asad, Muhammad. The Road to Mecca. Cambridge: Muslim Academic Trust, 1998
- Thesiger, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. London: Penguin Books, 2007
Lecture 6: Abdul Ghani bin Ismail al Nablusi – 23 March 2019
Lecture 7: Nizam Ad-Din Awliya – 11 May 2019
Lecture 8: Ebussuud Effendi – 8 June 2019
Lecture 9: Imam Al Ghazali – 6 July 2019
Lecture 10: Husain Ahmad Madani – 5 October 2019
Lecture 10 - Reading List
- Metcalf, Barbara D. Hussain Ahmad Madani. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009
Lecture 11: Abdullah Sirr Dan al-Jamal & Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar – 9 November 2019
Lecture 12: Uthman bin Affan – 7 December 2019
Lecture 13: Sukaina bint al-Hussein – 25 January 2020
Lecture 14: Imam Al Bukhari – 15 February 2020
Lecture 14 - Reading List
- Chittick, William. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
- Sirajuddin, Imam Abdallah. Our Master Muhammad: His Sublime Character and Exalted Attributes, Vol. 1 & 2. Sunni Publications, 2009.
- Murad, Abdal Hakim. The Mantle Adorned: A New Translation of the Celebration of the Poem of the Cloak (Qasidat al-Burda) by Imam Busiri. Cambridge: The Quilliam Press, 2009.
- Al Ghazali, Abu Hamid. The Book of Prophetic Ethics and the Courtesis of Living (Book XX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences). Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2019.
- Imam Bukhari. Adab Al Mufrad: A Code for Everyday Living (Fourth Edition). UK Islamic Academy, 2017
- Imam Bukhari. Sahih Al-Bukhari.
Lecture 15: Aziz Mahmud Hudayi – 14 March 2020
Lecture 15 - Reading List
- Al Ghazali, Abu Hamid. Duties of Brotherhood in Islam (Book XVII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences). Markfield: The Islamic Foundation, 1975.
- Al Ghazali, Abu Hamid. The Courtesies of Isolation (Book XVI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences). [Arabic]
- Ozelsel, Michaela. Forty Days: The Diary of a Traditional Solitary Sufi Retreat. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2002.
- Abdal Hakim Murad. Turkish Sacred Songs. Cambridge: Muslim Academic Trust, 2015.
- Ballanfat, Paul. The Nightingale in the Garden of Love: The Poems of Uftade. Oxford: Anqa Publishing, 2005.
- Graf, Tobias. The Sultan’s Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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