Maghazi Online Course + Ebook

Maghazi Online Course + EbookThe paperback edition of the Maghazi is also available on Amazon. Click here This year's Rabi' al Awwal Readings course will be a journey through The Maghz of Sayyidun Muhammad by the eminent Tabi'i scholar Musa ibn 'Uqbah, the earliest biography of the Messenger of Allah currently known to exist. While widely known and universally respected by the scholars of the Tabi'in and the early generations, until a short time ago The Maghz of Sayyidun Muhammad

The paperback edition of the Maghazi is also available on Amazon. Click here

This year's Rabi' al-Awwal Readings course will be a journey through The Maghāzī of Sayyidunā Muhammad ﷺ by the eminent Tabi'i scholar Musa ibn 'Uqbah, the earliest biography of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ currently known to exist.

While widely known and universally respected by the scholars of the Tabi'in and the early generations, until a short time ago The Maghāzī of Sayyidunā Muhammad ﷺ had not been seen for centuries, and was thought to be lost forever. Its rediscovery literally rewrites the narrative of history, and the true magnitude of its significance is yet to be fully known.

Over the past year, the IGP manuscripts team has produced the first-ever English translation of this work. Over the next 4 weeks, Shaykh Hamzah Maqbul will guide us on a journey through this text, exploring how the earliest generations of Muslims approached the life of the Prophet ﷺ. To our knowledge, this will be the first time The Maghāzī of Sayyidunā Muhammad ﷺ has been taught publicly in many centuries, and almost certainly the first time it has ever been taught to an English-speaking audience.

The course will include:

• Five intensive live sessions held via Zoom
• Access to recordings of all class sessions
• Ebook of the text delivered to all students
• Time for Q&A in all class sessions
  
• Invitation to a private Telegram chat with the instructor to facilitate additional discussion and Q&A

Course schedule: Wednesdays Sept 11-October 2, 2024 – 1 pm ET; 6 pm London; 10 am PST; 8pm Mecca; 1am Malaysia (1 hour long) – 5 sessions total (4 scheduled sessions + 1 session date/time TBD) – All sessions will be recorded if you cannot attend live.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Shaykh Hamzah Maqbul was born in California, and lived in Southern California until the age of ten when he moved to Washington state. He attended the University of Washington and completed a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry and a Bachelors of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and was active in the Muslim community on campus, serving as the president of the UW Muslim Students Association.

After graduation Shaykh Hamzah went on to pursue traditional Islāmic studies, which took him to a number of countries, including Syria and Egypt where he studied the Arabic language, Morocco, Mauritania, and UAE, where he studied the madhhab of Imām Mālik, grammar, usul al-hadith, and the two renditions of the qira’ah of Imam Nāfi’, Warsh and Qālūn, and finally Pakistān where he had the opportunity to study tafsīr, Usūl al-Hadīth, Hadīth, ‘Ilm al-Rijāl and Hanafī Fiqh. All of these studies culminated in him receiving an Ijāzat al-Tadrīs, literally meaning “a license to teach” which is the equivalent in Pakistānī Islāmic seminaries to a MA in Arabic and Islāmic studies, as well as an unbroken chain of transmission by which to narrate the Hadīth of such books as the Muwatta' of Imām Mālik, the Sihāh al-Sittah (Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Nasā'ī and Ibn Mājah), and the Sharh Ma'ānī al-Athār of Imām al-Tahāwī.

Upon his return to the United States, Shaykh Hamzah spent a number of years in the Muslim community of Seattle, Washington, and also worked closely with Darul Qasim, CAIR, the Halal Food Standards Alliance of America (hfsaa.org) and a number of other non-profit organizations that serve the Muslim Community. He is now the resident scholar for Ribāt, a center for learning and remembrance in the Midwest United States.