MONTHLY PROGRAMME - Islam, Women & Scholarship: Then & Now

**FREE EVENT - In association with Al-Salam Institute**

With 
Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Al Salam Institute)
'Muslim Women's Contribution to Islam' - excerpts from Al-Muhaddithaat

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Mrs. Carla Power (Author of 'If the Oceans were Ink')
'Women in Islam' - Her experience studying with Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi

We are incredibly honoured and privileged to have two distinguished guests address our community at ASCC's monthly programme on a topic of great and historic importance.

Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi is a world-renowned scholar of Indian origin, who has resided in England for an extensive time. After receiving in-depth training to an advanced level in the traditional Islamic disciplines at Nadwat al-Ulama, Lucknow, India, and receiving a PhD in Arabic literature from Lucknow University, he became a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, where he conducted research for a number of years (including topics of Hadith and Sufi orders in India). He has published widely in Urdu, Persian, Arabic and English, including translations (like his work on Shah Wali Allah), editions of Arabic texts (such as a renowned critical edition of Usul al-Shashi in Hanafi jurisprudence), and original monographs (on Islamic law, women hadith narrators and such figures as Abu Hanifa and Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi). He co-founded the Al-Salam Institute in 2006 and continues to teach the Advanced Level modules of the ASI ‘alimiyya programme in traditional Islamic scholarship.


Carla Power is a journalist specializing in Muslim societies, global social issues and culture, Carla Power is the author of If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Henry Holt, 2015), an account of her year spent studying with the traditional Islamic scholar Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi. She currently writes for Time and other publications, and is a former correspondent for Newsweek, where she produced award-winning stories, reporting from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Her essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, from Vogue and O: The Oprah Magazine to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.
She holds an M.Phil. from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, as well as degrees from Yale and Columbia. Married, with two children, she lives in England.

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