Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari

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Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari (2017).jpg
Al-Kawthari in 2017
Chief Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester
Personal
Born
Leicester, England
ReligionIslam
CreedSunni
Main interest(s)Fiqh
Notable work(s)
OccupationMufti
Founder ofDarul Ifta Leicester

Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari is a British Sunni Islamic scholar, mufti, researcher, founder and chief-Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester and a teacher at Jamiah Uloom-ul-Quran Leicester. He has authored a number of books including Islamic Guide to Sexual Relations and Birth Control & Abortion in Islam. He has written a marginalia to the Deobandi creed book Al-Muhannad ala al-Mufannad in Arabic language.

Biography[]

Al-Kawthari's father Mawlana Adam is one of the senior scholars in England. Shaykh Adam Square in Leicester is named after him.[1] Born in Leicester, Al-Kawthari graduated from Darul Uloom Bury and later studied with Muhammad Taqi Usmani at Darul Uloom Karachi.[2][3] His other teachers include his father Mawlana Adam and Yusuf Motala.[4] During 2000, he studied from Abd al-Razzaq al-Halabi and Abd al-Latif Farfur al-Hasani in Syria.[2]

Al-Kawthari is founder and Chief-Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester and a teacher at Jamiah Uloom-ul-Quran Leicester.[5][6] He also teaches traditional Islamic sciences in London.[5] He is an Islamic jurist and researcher.[7][8][9][10]

Literary works[]

Al-Kawthari's literary works include:[11]

  • Islamic Guide to Sexual Relations (translated in German as Ehe und Liebesleben im Islam).[12]
  • Birth Control & Abortion in Islam[6]
  • Mabahith fi 'Aqa'id Ahl al-Sunna (a marginalia in Arabic language to Al-Muhannad alal Mufannad, the creed book of Deobandis, authored by Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri)[13]
  • Al-Arbaʿin: Elucidation of Forty Hadiths on Marriage
  • The Issue of Shares and Simplified Rules of Zakat

References[]

  1. ^ "Leicester honours one of the city's most prominent Muslim figures". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari". whitethreadpress. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Islamic Cleric to start U.S. Speaking Tour". Rabwah Times. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. ^ Ebrahim Desai. "Fatwa on Al-Kawthari's Reliability". askimam.org. Askimam. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Afshan Mohiuddin; Mehrunisha Suleman; Shoaib Rasheed; Aasim I. Padela (2020). "When can Muslims withdraw or withhold life support? A narrative review of Islamic juridical rulings". Global Bioethics. 31 (1): 34. doi:10.1080/11287462.2020.1736243. ISSN 1128-7462. PMC 7144300. PMID 32284707.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Berlatsky, Noah, ed. (27 August 2010). Abortion. Cristine Nasso. p. 41. ISBN 9780737749281. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  7. ^ Chaudhry, Ayesha S. (December 2013). Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition. ISBN 9780199640164.
  8. ^ Nadia Halib; Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Salleh; Wan Abdul Fattah Wan Ismail; Haslinda Ramli; Nur Akilah; Abdul Ghaffar; Shofian Ahmad (2016). "Islam and technological development in Malaysia's health care: An Islamic legal basis analysis of dental materials used in periodontal therapy". Malaysian Journal of Society and Space. National University of Malaysia. 12 (1): 91–92. ISSN 2180-2491. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. ^ Ali, Muhammad Mansur (20 August 2019). "Three British Muftis understanding of organ transplantation". Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association. 2: 3, 6 – via orca.cf.ac.uk.
  10. ^ Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf; Leslie Tramontini. "Renegotiating shariʿa-based Normative Guidelines in Cyberspace: The Case of Women's ʿawra". Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. Heidelberg University. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam". cardiff.ac.uk. Cardiff University. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  12. ^ "سازمان فرهنگ و ارتباطات اسلامي – اخبار > ترجمه کتاب "ازدواج و زندگی عاشقانه در اسلام" به زبان آلمانی". icro.ir.
  13. ^ Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri; Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari. Mabahith fi Aqaid Ahl al-Sunnah (in Arabic). Jordan: Dar al-Fath. ISBN 9789957234409.
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