Editor, Author at Dr. Jasser Auda

01 Nov 16

Amb. Ebrahim Rasool – Maqasid Al- Shariah as a Philosophy

Dr. Ebrahim Rasool is the former Ambassador of South Africa to the US. He has a legacy of going to prison with Nelson Mandela and eventually being a minister in the first elected South African government after the fall of the Apartheid, and then an elected Premier of the Western…

01 Nov 16

Aisha married Mohammad at age 16, not 9

Jasser Auda, a Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at Carleton University in Ottawa and a Founding and Board Member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, claims that there is no basis in Islam for legalizing early marriage. In his recent lecture on the book of the medieval Andalusian Muslim…

01 Nov 16

Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 2

01 Nov 16

European Council for Fatwa and Research meeting

My presentation to the latest European Council for Fatwa and Research meeting, which was held last week and of which I am a member, focused on Islamic education in Europe and the west in general. The main point, which I wanted to share here, is that students of Islamic knowledge…

01 Nov 16

Trained Ulama, Muftis and Imams

One of the major needs for Muslim communities everywhere is trained Ulama, Muftis and Imams. Without proper training and especially versing them in Maqasid Al-Shariah, Imams and Muftis become victims of corrupt ideologies that claim falsely to be Islamic while they are the furthest from the principles of Islam, and…