Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari is a British Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, 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 commentary to the Deobandi creed book Al-Muhannad ala al-Mufannad in Arabic language.
Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari | |
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 Al-Kawthari in 2023 | |
| Chief Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48)[1] Leicester, England |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh |
| Notable work(s) |
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| Education | Darul Uloom Karachi Darul Uloom Bury |
| Teachers | Taqi Usmani Yusuf Motala |
| Occupation | Mufti |
| Organization | |
| Founder of | Darul Ifta Leicester |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Muḥammad محمد |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn Ādam بن آدم |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū ʿAbd Allāh أبو عبد الله |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Kawtharī الكوثري |
Biography
editAl-Kawthari's father Mawlana Adam was one of the senior scholars in England. Shaykh Adam Square in Leicester is named after him.[2] Born in Leicester, Al-Kawthari graduated from Darul Uloom Bury and later studied with Muhammad Taqi Usmani at Darul Uloom Karachi.[1][3] His other teachers include his father Mawlana Adam and Yusuf Motala.[4] During 2000, he studied under Abd al-Razzaq al-Halabi and Abd al-Latif Farfur al-Hasani in Syria.[1]
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
editAl-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
edit- ^ a b c "Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari". whitethreadpress. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Leicester honours one of the city's most prominent Muslim figures". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Islamic Cleric to start U.S. Speaking Tour". Rabwah Times. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Ebrahim Desai. "Fatwa on Al-Kawthari's Reliability". askimam.org. Askimam. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Berlatsky, Noah, ed. (27 August 2010). Abortion. Cristine Nasso. p. 41. ISBN 9780737749281. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ Chaudhry, Ayesha S. (December 2013). Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition. ISBN 9780199640164.
- ^ 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. 12 (1). National University of Malaysia: 91–92. ISSN 2180-2491. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 9. Heidelberg University: 19. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam". cardiff.ac.uk. Cardiff University. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "سازمان فرهنگ و ارتباطات اسلامي – اخبار > ترجمه کتاب "ازدواج و زندگی عاشقانه در اسلام" به زبان آلمانی". icro.ir.
- ^ Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri; Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari. Mabahith fi Aqaid Ahl al-Sunnah (in Arabic). Jordan: Dar al-Fath. ISBN 9789957234409.