Umar Faruq Abd-Allah - Hadith of Gabriel: Islam in a Nutshell

Umar Faruq Abd-AllahMay 25, 20190 comments

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In this rich and wide-ranging lecture, Shaykh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah uses the Hadith of Gabriel as a framework to explore the three essential dimensions of Islam: Iman (creed/aqeedah), Islam (the Shariah/fiqh), and Ihsan (spiritual perfection/tasawwuf). He traces the history and purpose of each dimension, discusses the major schools of Islamic theology and law, and offers a deeply personal and practical account of authentic Sufism — its definition, its dangers when falsified, and its inseparability from sound creed and outward practice.

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah is an American scholar and theologian regarded as one of the intellectual fathers of indigenous American Muslim thought. Born Wymann-Landgraf into a Protestant family, he embraced Islam in 1970, earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies with a dissertation on Malik's concept of amal, and taught at the University of Michigan, King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, and elsewhere. As scholar-in-residence of the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, he authored influential essays including "Islam and the Cultural Imperative" and the acclaimed biography "A Muslim in Victorian America" about Alexander Russell Webb. His work centers on theology, Maliki law, and the formation of an authentic American Muslim culture.

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