Stepping off the busy London street and through the welcoming threshold of the UK’s oldest Islamic bookshop, and immediately I can breathe. The hurry and hustle of life, of the city, slip off as easily as my coat when I enter the hushed, comforting atmosphere of this literary sanctuary. For the past forty years, Ta-Ha […]
Prof Abd ar-Rahman I. Doi
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Professor Abd ar-Rahman Doi (1933 – 1999) gained a BA and MA from Bombay University before obtaining his PhD in 1964 under Prof A J Arberry at the University of Cambridge. He also studied Law at the Hague Institute of International of Law. He has taught in Universities in Nigeria, continuing his research in Sharia (Islamic Law). Due to his vast knowledge of Sharia, he was affiliated and was the guiding force in the setting up of Sharia courts in Kano and Kaduna. His knowledge of Sharia and comparative religion placed him in high esteem among world scholars and his opinion was most sought after when the first Islamic banks started in Egypt and Sudan. Here he wrote his very famous book, Shari‘ah: Islamic Law, which is currently the standard text book in 164 countries of the world.
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