The Practical Guidebook
of Essential Islamic Sciences,
Paperback - 221 pages, English / Arabic.
A Commentary on Ibn Ashir's al-Murshid al-Mu'in,
Commentary by Shaykh Ali Laraki al-Husaini.
Edited by: Haji Issa Bryce
Typeset by: Abdassamad Clarke
Description :
Practical Guidebook of Essential Islamic Sciences is a commentary on the three essential sciences that have characterised the Islam of the West – Andalus and North and West Africa – from the earliest days: fiqh, ‘aqida and tasawwuf. It is refined and distilled from Shaykh Ali Laraki’s teaching the justly famed al-Murshid al-Mu‘in of ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn ‘Ashir, may Allah have mercy upon him, to students, young and old, while imam of communities in Madrid, Norwich, Newark (US) and Cape Town.
Al-Murshid al-Mu‘in by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn Ashir (d. 1040 AH / 1631 CE) summarises the deen as outlined in the 'hadith of Jibril' on Islam, Iman and Ihsan in 317 verses.
Table of Contents:
---Dedication
---Acknowledgements
---Preface by Shaykh Abd 'al-Hayy al-Amrawi,
Preface
---The Work,
---The Commentary,
---Reasons to undertake this effort,
---Transliteration and italicisation of words,
---Verse numberings,
---Sidi Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Ali ibn 'Ashir's Introduction,
---Chapter on Beliefs ,
---Introduction to the Book of Belief - Aqida,
---The Source of the Principles and their contained Beliefs,
---Introduction to the Science of the Sources of Fiqh,
---The Book of Purification,
---The Book of Salat,
---The Book of Juma'ah,
---The Book of Zakat,
---The Book of Fasting,
---The Book of Hajj,
---The Principles of Tasawwuf and a Guide to Gnosis,
---Al-Murshid al-Mu'in,
---Bibliography
---About the Author,
The author is Shaykh Ali Laraki al-Husaini whose family, including a long line of noted scholars, stem from Fez, the capital city of knowledge for North Africa. He grew up between Morocco and Spain, and is bi-lingual in Arabic and Spanish, as well as being almost equally fluent in French and English. He studied fiqh in the traditional manner with distinguished scholars such as Shaykh Muhammad an-Naifar and Shaykh Muhammad al-Lakhwa (ex-professors in the Jami‘ az-Zaituna of Tunis) and the late Sidi Muhammad al-Wazzani of Melilla, may Allah show mercy to them all. He is currently resident in Leicester (UK) and is Senior Lecturer at the Meem Institute.
