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Keller has also written numerous articles and was a regular contributor to ''[[Islamica Magazine]]'' and the website masud.co.uk.<ref>{{cite news |author=Brown, Derek |date=November 1, 2001 |title=A Different Perspective: Muslim Websites in Britain – Britain's Muslim Community Is Well Served by Websites Offering News, Opinion, and Religious Interpretation of the West's Response to the Terrorist Attacks on the US, as Derek Brown Explains |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/september11.uk |access-date=September 18, 2011}}</ref> |
Keller has also written numerous articles and was a regular contributor to ''[[Islamica Magazine]]'' and the website masud.co.uk.<ref>{{cite news |author=Brown, Derek |date=November 1, 2001 |title=A Different Perspective: Muslim Websites in Britain – Britain's Muslim Community Is Well Served by Websites Offering News, Opinion, and Religious Interpretation of the West's Response to the Terrorist Attacks on the US, as Derek Brown Explains |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/september11.uk |access-date=September 18, 2011}}</ref> |
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Currently, Keller lives in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Educating the Muslims of America |author1=[[Yvonne Haddad|Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck]] |author2=Senzai, Farid |author3=Smith, Jane I. |page=[https://archive.org/details/educatingmuslims0000unse/page/144 144] |year=2009 |publisher=[[New York City]]: [[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-537520-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/educatingmuslims0000unse/page/144 }}</ref> where he established a ''[[Zawiya (institution)|zawiya]]'' (seminary) in the early 2000s. |
Currently, Keller lives in [[Amman]], [[Jordan]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Educating the Muslims of America |author1=[[Yvonne Haddad|Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck]] |author2=Senzai, Farid |author3=Smith, Jane I. |page=[https://archive.org/details/educatingmuslims0000unse/page/144 144] |year=2009 |publisher=[[New York City]]: [[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-537520-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/educatingmuslims0000unse/page/144 }}</ref> where he established a ''[[Zawiya (institution)|zawiya]]'' (seminary) in the early 2000s. He is married to Besa Krasniqi, a prominent scholar who is the daughter of [[Mazhar Krasniqi]].<ref name="Dru14">{{cite journal|last=Drury|first=Abdullah|title=Mazharbeg: An Albanian in Exile|url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review/Waikato-Islamic-Studies-Review-Vol-6-No-1.pdf#page=4|journal=Waikato Islamic Studies Review|volume=6|issue=1|year=2020|page=14|doi=}}</ref> |
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He is married to Besa Krasniqi, a prominent scholar who is the daughter of [[Mazhar Krasniqi]].<ref name="Dru14">{{cite journal|last=Drury|first=Abdullah|title=Mazharbeg: An Albanian in Exile|url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review/Waikato-Islamic-Studies-Review-Vol-6-No-1.pdf#page=4|journal=Waikato Islamic Studies Review|volume=6|issue=1|year=2020|page=14|doi=}}</ref> |
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== Works == |
== Works == |
Revision as of 12:40, 30 June 2022
Nuh Ha Mim Keller | |
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Title | Shaykh |
Personal | |
Born | 1954 (age 67–68)[1] |
Religion | Islam |
Era | Modern era |
Region | Jordan |
Denomination | Sunni Islam |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i |
Creed | Ash'ari |
Main interest(s) | Sharia, Hadith, Tafsir, Sufism |
Tariqa | Shadhili |
Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an American Islamic scholar, teacher and author who lives in Amman. He is a translator of a number of Islamic books.[2]
Life and scholarship
Keller studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles. Keller converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism in 1977.[3] He has cited Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr's writings as one of the reasons for his conversion to Islam.[4]: 198
He then began a prolonged study of the Islamic sciences with prominent scholars in Syria and Jordan and was authorized as a shaykh in 1996.[3]
He joined the Shadhili Sufi order, becoming a disciple of the Sufi poet Sheikh ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri of Damascus (from whom he received his authorization) from 1982 until his death in 2004.[5]
His English translation of Umdat al-Salik, Reliance of the Traveller, (Sunna Books, 1991) is a Shafi'i manual of Shariah.[6][7] It is the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of Al-Azhar University.[3][8]
Keller has also recently released a translation of the Quran titled, The Quran Beheld, which strives to provide readers with a unique sense of the high eloquence and beauty of the Quran while also maintaining the linguistic and rhetorical accuracy.[9][non-primary source needed] In the translator's own words, "Seven key areas of meaning" were "neglected by previous translations. Such gaps result in crucial elements of the Quran’s themes, logic, arguments, message, and meanings being lost. The Quran Beheld thus uncovers matters of Arabic meaning in the Quran for the first time in English."[10][non-primary source needed]
Keller has also written numerous articles and was a regular contributor to Islamica Magazine and the website masud.co.uk.[11]
Currently, Keller lives in Amman, Jordan,[12] where he established a zawiya (seminary) in the early 2000s. He is married to Besa Krasniqi, a prominent scholar who is the daughter of Mazhar Krasniqi.[13]
Works
Author
- Evolution Theory and Islam: Letter to Suleman Ali, 1999.
- The Concept of Bidʻa in the Islamic Shariʻa, 1999.
- The Shadhili Tariqa: Notes from the Hashimi-Darqawi Order of the Tariqa of Imam Abul Hasan al-Shadhili, 1999.
- Port in a Storm: A Fiqh Solution to the Qibla of North America, 2001.
- Becoming Muslim, 2001.
- Sufism and Islam, 2002.
- Sea Without Shore: A Manual of the Sufi Path, 2011.
Translator
- The Quran Beheld: An English Translation from the Arabic, 2022.
- Yaḥyā Ibn-Šaraf an-Nawawī, Al-Nawawi's Manual of Islam (Maqāṣid), 1996 (latest edition in 2009).
- Aḥmad Ibn-an-Naqīb al-Miṣrī, Reliance of the Traveller : A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law (ʻUmdat al-salik), 1994 (latest edition in 2015).
References
- ^ Akbar, Ameen (October 25, 2015). "Becoming Muslim, Nuh Ha Mim Keller". Archived from the original on October 28, 2015.
- ^ Hewer, C. T. R. (2006). Understanding Islam – The First Ten Steps. SCM Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-334-04032-3.
- ^ a b c Hamid, Sadek (December 30, 2015). Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism. I.B.Tauris. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-78453-231-4.
- ^ Mathiesen, Kasper (2013). "Anglo-American 'Traditional Islam' and Its Discourse of Orthodoxy". Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. 13: 191–219. doi:10.5617/jais.4633. ISSN 0806-198X.
- ^ "Profile".
- ^ Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Nuh Ha Mim Keller (1368). "Reliance of the Traveller" (PDF). Amana Publications. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Nuh Ha Mim Keller (1368). "A Classic Manual of Islamic Scared Law" (PDF). Shafiifiqh.com. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ Brandon, James; Hafez, Salam (2008). Crimes of the Community: Honour-Based Violence in the UK. Centre for Social Cohesion. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-903386-64-4.
- ^ "The Quran Beheld". www.quranbeheld.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Discover the Quran in English". www.quranbeheld.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Brown, Derek (November 1, 2001). "A Different Perspective: Muslim Websites in Britain – Britain's Muslim Community Is Well Served by Websites Offering News, Opinion, and Religious Interpretation of the West's Response to the Terrorist Attacks on the US, as Derek Brown Explains". The Guardian. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
- ^ Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck; Senzai, Farid; Smith, Jane I. (2009). Educating the Muslims of America. New York City: Oxford University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-19-537520-6.
- ^ Drury, Abdullah (2020). "Mazharbeg: An Albanian in Exile" (PDF). Waikato Islamic Studies Review. 6 (1): 14.