Jamal zarabozo biography
Jamaal al-Din M.Zarabozo
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“The combination of the idea of Tawhid and the preservation of the text of the Quran affected me the most”
Jamaluddin Zarabozo
Birth:1960, France.
Nationality:Spanish-American.
Residence:Berkeley, Colorado, US.
Education:Bachelors degree in Economics at the University of California in Berkley and in Davis, Master’s Degree in Economics from UC in Davis. Left his Ph.D. studies to pursue Islamic studies. Learnt Arabic autodidactly and studied Islam with Dr. Mustafa Azami, a world-renown scholar of hadith, in Boulder, Colorado.
Occupation:Islamic scholar, lecturer, editor, and author of numerous books on Islam
Activities:Imam of the Islamic Center of Boulder, Colorado; teaching Islamic and Arabic Language classes from the Muslim Community Association of the San Francisco Bay Area and from Masjid An-Nur Islamic Center (available via live streaming from his website http://www.jamaalzarabozo.com); a regular guest on the Islam Channel, and founder and editor of al-BasheerMagazine.
Works:A Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Nawawi, Towards Understanding Islam – Part I, How to Approach and Understand the Quran, The Authority and Importance of the Sunnah, Purification of the Soul, He Came to Teach you your Religion, The Fiqh of the Friday Prayer, The Friday Prayer – Khutbas I-II, Easy Fiqh,and Jihad and Western Attitude toward War. Translation from Arabic books: if The World of The Jinn and The Devilsby Omar Al-Ashqar, Words of Remembrance and Words of Reminder( Salih al-Sadlaan), The Fiqh of Marriage(Salih al-Sadlaan), Marital Discordn(Salih al-Sadlaan), The Concise Presentation of The Fiqh, Fiqh al-Sunnah(Syed Sabiq) and Religious Extremism in the Lives of Contemporary Muslims.
Previous faith:Catholic
Revert:1976
Reason:“The idea of Tawhid appealed to me first of all – as it does to many converts to Islam – as this was one of the mai
Who Is Shaykh Jamal Zarabozo?
Q) If you have, do you recommend it for English speaking Muslims who study comparative fiqh?
A) I do not recommend studying comparative Fiqh at all. There is no scholar ever recommend it because it is quite impossible unless one is well versed in one Madhab first then was able to learn the usool of the other 3 Madhabs, assuming one knows Arabic very well and all its sciences, memorised the ayaat of Ahkaam, the hadeeths of Ahkaam, Nasikh and Mansookh and etc. Because without these means one can never understand other madhabs or his own madhab. Unless you mean, to know the fatwa of each Madhab which is more complicated than as it seems. The Shafiee Madhab, we have three schools, the Maliki has two schools, the Hanafi has 2 schools as well. and the official position of each Madhab on each matter is faced with other valid views within the madhab itself.
I do not want to put anyone down but I would like those who would like to seek knowledge to know why they seek knowledge first and to study in the right way to benefit from what they learn.
Most whom I met in the west during my stay there were students of Nayl al-Awtaar and bidayat al-Mujtahid and al-Muhalla and though they think they had knowledge I can tell you they were more than ignorants and do not even understand religion no matter what they read.
So, my advice is: focus on learning one Madhab. Then after choosing which Madhab, focus on learning the topics that concern you as a Muslim and are obligatory upon you to learn, then expand from there and if you can get a Shaykh to advise you and supervise you that would be the best.
I will look at the website but inshallah we are soon to launch a website that is only dedicated to the Shafiee Fiqh and it will be similar to XXX inshallah.
Wallahu A'lam
Shaykh XXX
P.S: In my opinion its MOST DEVASTATING for laymen to start dabbling in Qur'aan & Sunnah and start picking/choosing Authentic opinions and I am glad to see that even t