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Mainstream Sunni Islam has always produced great scholars of theology that protected the creed and worldview of Islam across the history of our religion. These scholars by and large have been from the two largest Sunni paradigms of Kalam: The Ash’arites and Maturidites. These two schools, although they agree on the majority of the core points of theology, have some nuanced areas of difference that have preoccupied the attentions of thinkers for centuries.

Join us for an eight-session course with Shaykh Shams Tameez on studying some of these differences to gain a better appreciation of our theological schools and their intellectual and philosophical traditions. The brunt of the course will be based on the treatise of Imam Shaykhzadah on the differences between the two schools and requires students to have familiarity with the creedal opinions of at least one of the two schools.

This course is not for the beginner but is perfect for those who wish to expand their understanding of Islamic theology and have an interest in Islamic intellectual and theological history.

Course Instructor: Shaykh Shams Tameez is a graduate of UK-based seminary Jamia al-Karam. He then completed the Diploma at the Cambridge Muslim College in Contextual Islamic Studies and Leadership. After this he worked as an Imam at Aylesbury Mosque in Buckinghamshire before embarking on further studies in Istanbul at the Abu Hanifa Institute. He has also been fortunate to study with great scholars from Syria currently residing in Istanbul such as Shaykh Khalid al-Kharsa, Shaykh Adnan Darwesh, Shaykh Ridwan al-Kaheel and Shaykh Muhammad Shuqayr and Turkish scholars such as Mulla Yavus. He then travelled to Tarim in Yemen for one year where he was blessed to study at Dar al-Mustafa. He returned to the UK and completed a Master degree at SOAS University in Islamic studies. He is currently pursing a PhD at Ibn Haldun University focusing on Islamic theology along with studying at the IKAM seminary specialising in the Islamic rational sciences. He continues to be a teacher & lecturer at the Karima Foundation.

Venue: Castlefield Community Centre or online. A weekly link will be sent out to registered students for the online session.

Cost: £50 online - £30 in-person

Student Requirements: Students must have read at least one foundational text in either Ash'ari or Maturidi Kalaam and also must have proficiency in Arabic reading to the intermediate level