Abdal Hakim Murad - Sexuality: An Islamic Perspective

Abdal Hakim MuradNovember 20, 20180 comments

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In this wide-ranging lecture, Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad explores Islamic teachings on sexuality, drawing on Imam al-Ghazali's *Kitab Kasra al-Shahwatain* (Book of Breaking the Two Desires) to articulate a balanced, sex-positive understanding of human desire grounded in the Quran, Sunnah, and classical scholarship. He contrasts Islam's affirmative view of sexuality and marriage with Christian notions of celibacy, critiques both repression and excess as spiritual failures, and addresses practical topics including the ethics of the gaze, the wisdom of hijab, the perils of khalwa (illicit seclusion), and the spiritual dimensions of married life. The lecture concludes with a Q&A session covering topics such as Hajj for women without mahrams, polygamy, and student marriage.

Abdal Hakim Murad

Timothy John "Tim" Winter (born 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Sufi Muslim researcher, writer and teacher. His profile and work have attracted media coverage both in the Muslim World and the West. Conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter has made contributions on many Islamic topics. Education Born in 1960, Winter was educated at Westminster School, and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge in 1983. He then studied and taught traditional Islamic sciences at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt for several years, and spent several more in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Shaykh Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. In 1989, he returned to England and spent two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he concentrated on Turkish and Persian. Career Winter is currently the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College, and a doctoral student at Oxford University, where he is studying the relationship between the government and Sufi brotherhoods in the Ottoman Empire. Winter is also the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project, which has published scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections.

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