Kitab At-Tabaqat Al-Kabir Volume VI: The Scholars of KufaThe Kitab at Tabaqat al Kabir by Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa'd is one of the most important and earliest surviving collections of biographical details of the early Muslims, spanning just over the first two centuries of Islam. It is a rich storehouse of information compiled from all the sources available to Ibn Sa'd, as a result of which, the reader is given a vivid insight into the lives of the early Muslims and how extraordinary they were. The

both scholars and lay readers can explore the deeper spiritual meaning of the Quran

More than 1 billion Muslims fast in the holy month of Ramadan

personal vignettes

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Widely considered to be the finest commentary on the greatest book of hadith

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Packed with fun facts

Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Professor of Law at the International Islamic University Malaysia where he has been teaching Islamic law and jurisprudence since 1985

Islam teaches that marriage is ‘half of religion’

as he did for Oxford's award-winning edition of Book One

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