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Author: Dr Ovamir Anjum

Uwaymir Anjum is the Imam Khattab Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toledo. He is also professor of Islamic Intellectual History at Qatar University. He studies the connections between theology, ethics, politics, and law in classical and medieval Islam, with a subfocus on its comparisons with western thought. Related fields of study include Islamic philosophy and Sufism. His dissertation, published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press, is entitled Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment. His translation of Ibn al-Qayyim's Madârij Al-Sâlikîn is forthcoming.
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Dr. Ovamir Anjum, The Crisis of Authority Among Muslims: Rediscovering Islamic Tradition

Translations from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Goodness (Ihsan) | Tr. Uwaymir Anjum

The Culminating Virtue of Ihsan AMONG THE STATIONS of You alone we worship, and your help alone we seek is the station of goodness (i ḥsân). This station is the essence, the heart and soul, and the perfection of faith. Moreover, it…
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Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Faqr (Mendicancy) | Part 2

Mendicancy and the Moment MENDICANCY (FAQR) HAS effects, signs, causes, and implications that the people of the path (the seekers after closeness to God) frequently mention. One said: “The mendicant is one whose ambition does not transcend his present step,” that is, he…
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Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Faqr (Mendicancy) | Part 1

AMONG THE STATIONS of iyyâka naʿbudu wa iyyâka nastaʿîn, “You alone we worship and your help alone we seek” [Sûrat Al-Fâti ḥah, 1:5] is the station of mendicancy (al-faqr, translated henceforth as mendicancy, poverty, or destitution). To the people of the path,…
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Islamic Tradition (6) | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

IN CONTINUING OUR study of unity vs. diversity and the limits of each, we look here at the second, third and fourth Trajectories of Disagreement in Islamic Tradition. The second, like the first, is positive, whereas the third and fourth are negative. Recall…
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Islamic Tradition (5) | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

IN CONTINUING OUR study of unity vs. diversity and the limits of each, we look here at the first of four Trajectories of Disagreement in Islamic Tradition. Trajectory 1:  The great success story of Islamic Tradition: Truth through debate Some disagreements may…
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Islamic Tradition (4) | Differences of Opinion and Humility | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

WE MOVE ON from Part (3) to discuss how Islamic Tradition, which has been neglected in recent centuries—under pressure from Modernism—has the power to bring us back to our blessed state of practical Islam. The Second Obstacle: Modernity (continued) The Dynamism of…
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Islamic Tradition (3) | Modernity | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

WE CONTINUE DISCUSSING reasons why Islamic Tradition has been neglected, especially in our last several centuries. The first obstacle (Part 2) has been ignorant sectarianism (the “Nishapur syndrome”) in some places and, in other places, it has been the sacrificing of Islamic…
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Islamic Tradition (2) | The Nishapur and Ummayyad Syndromes | Dr. Uwaymir Anjum

HAVING CHARACTERIZED THE “heart of our Tradition” as those curators, patrons and supporters—and their technical tools and writings which have preserved our understanding of the context and meaning of the Quran and Sunnah—we move on to reasons why Islamic Tradition has come…
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Da‘wah: An American Thing? | Uwaymir Anjum

Is DAʿWAH AN American thing? The answer is, yes. Absolutely. We must insist on inviting others to Islam, because we cannot be fully Muslims without it. But can we still be fully American? Isn’t proselytizing frowned upon in a society that celebrates…
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Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of the Sought (Al-Murâd) | Part 3

EDITOR’S NOTE: THE Station of the Sought is one of the advanced states of the heart for worshippers who are seriously striving for nearness to Allah, according to Ibn Al-Qayyim. It has three tiered levels, ascending from lower to higher: (1) Allah…
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