This is the third stage of a five-stage program which will take students through a formal, detailed, and holistic study of the Hanafi school via a pedagogically sound and structured curriculum. The carefully curated works chosen for the program focus on instilling a strong, principled, and in-depth understanding of the Hanafi school in every participant. You can learn more about the program here.

At Level Two, students will study a treatise written by the assistant to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari, to review and strengthen their understanding of Kufan inherited practice and its centrality to the Hanafi tradition. For Legal Theory, Samt al-Wusul will be studied, a work which is considered one of the best abridgements of the Manar. Through the reading of the authoritative text, Mukhtasar al-Quduri, students will continue their principled study of the madhhab of Imam Abu Hanifa, and learn its underlying maxims and theory. The specialised text for this course is Ibn al-Humam’s Zad al-Faqir, a semi-detailed compendium of rulings of the purification and prayer which  serves as a useful preparatory text for an upcoming study of the Maraqi al-Falah. Students will also cover the Musnad of Imam Abu Hanifa, a text which has received much attention from the scholarly class. Students will also complete a reading and study of al-Fiqh al-Akbar, a key work of theology ascribed to Imam Abu Hanifa, and much loved by the Ottoman scholarly elites. Finally, students will study inward fiqh, namely, the proper etiquettes of practising the shariʿa in one’s life from the beautiful work, Shirʿat al-Islam.