Muqaddimat al-Imam al-Kawthari : Arabic

*[A4] Hardback - 624 pages,

by Imam Zahid al-Kawthari [d.1371h],

Published by Dar al Salam, Egypt.

Description :

Muqaddimat al-Imam al-Kawthari - is a collection of Imam Zahid al-Kawthari's various "Introductions" muqaddimah. It is an assortment of works he wrote or wrote specific 'Introductions' for. These total to 57 'Introductions' in the following Islamic sciences :



 ---1. Aqidah, 'Ilm al-Kalam, Sects and Philosophy (pages 35 to 255),
 ---2. Hadith Sciences, (pages 259 to 404),
 ---3. Fiqh, Ahkam and Usul, (pages 405 to 484),
 ---4. Tariqh, Sira and Biographies (pages 485 to 549),
 ---5. Tasawwuf, Akhlaq and Mawa'idh (pages 551 to 567).

About the Author :

He is Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawthari al-Hanafi al-Ash`ari (1296-1371), the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Caliphate and a major Hanafi jurist praised by Imam Muhammad Abu Zahra as a Reviver (mujaddid) of the fourteenth Islamic century.

He studied under his father as well as the scholar of Qur'an and hadith Ibrahim Haqqi (d. 1345), Shaykh Zayn al-`Abidin al-Alsuni (d. 1336), Shaykh Muhammad Khalis al-Shirwani, al-Hasan al-Aztuwa'i, and others. When the Caliphate fell he moved to Cairo, then Sham, then Cairo again until his death, where the late Shaykhs `Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda and `Abd Allah al-Ghumari became his students.

More Arabic books,

Also see Dars e Nizami books.

*Dimensions : 24.4 x 18cm.