Shaykh Yousef Wahb's first trip to the UK!
Turath Publishing and The Karima Foundation are pleased to announce a day seminar with Shaykh Yousef Wahb and Shaykh Dr. Sohaib Saeed.
The primary miracle of Islam, from the earliest period until today, has been the Qur'an. It bedazzled the Quraysh, leading many of their leaders to accept Islam, or at least to admit its miraculous nature. However, times have changed and now, in the modern age, trying to understand the miracle of the Qur'an, as a historical phenomenon and also attempting to convey that miracle to people today, is not so easy. Many Muslim thinkers have slipped in their attempts to make sense of this miracle and seismic paradigm shifts have taken place even in the last 20 years.
Join us as we host these two amazingly gifted scholars, each with their own understandings and attempted grappling with the miracle of the Qur'an, as we attempt a deep dive into this topic.
The event will be interactive with an opportunity to discuss with, engage and provoke our speakers in their attempts to present their ideas.
Session 1: The Evolution of Ijaz with Shaykh Yousef: Shaykh Yousef will provide an overview of the history of the discussion, and also how the theological and rhetorical contentions about it lead to evolving definitions of terms like muʿjiza, taḥaddī, muʿāraḍa, etc.
Session 2: Science or Signs? with Shaykh Dr. Sohaib Saeed: Shaykh Sohaib will discuss the concept of scientific miracles of the Qur'an, including recent misconceptions in that regard, and how to approach the Qur'anic depiction of the natural world.
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Speaker Biographies:
Shaykh Dr. Sohaib Saeed
Dr. Sohaib Saeed is the founder and director of the Ibn ‘Ashur Centre for Quranic Studies since 2017. He holds a BA and MSc in philosophy from Edinburgh, a degree in Tafsīr and Quranic Sciences from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and a PhD from SOAS, University of London, under the guidance of M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. His forthcoming book, Explaining the Qur’an Through the Qur’an, will be published by Edinburgh University Press. Renowned for his translations of classical tafsīr works, Dr. Saeed's first volume of The Great Exegesis by Imam Razi won the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation in 2018. He has contributed to numerous academic publications, including the Journal of Qur’anic Studies and The Handbook of Qur’anic Hermeneutics, and serves on the advisory board for the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture & Theology series.
In education, Dr. Saeed has been a senior tafsīr consultant for Bayyinah Institute since 2016 and took a pivotal role at Quran.Foundation in 2021, overseeing major websites like Quran.com and QuranReflect. Through his initiative Quranica, he has created innovative Quranic presentations. His teaching experience includes positions at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as community institutions such as Al-Salam Institute, iSyllabus, the Islamic Seminary of America, and Whitethread Institute. Dr. Saeed continues to engage in academic conferences and speaking engagements in the field of Quranic Studies.
Shaykh Yousef Wahb
Shaykh Yousef Wahb is an Islamic scholar and educator with a diverse background in both Islamic and secular studies. He holds a Bachelor in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University and a Masters of Law (LL.M) from the University of Windsor. Recently, he completed a second Masters at the University of Chicago Divinity School and is currently pursuing his PhD in Islamic Law at the University of Chicago Division of Humanities. Shaykh Yousef serves as an Islamic Law Instructor at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law, and he is also the Research Director and Associate Editor at the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, where he focuses on Quranic studies.
In addition to his academic roles, Shaykh Yousef is deeply involved in community service. He is a co-founding board member of Green Ummah and the University of Windsor Muslim Chaplaincy, as well as an Islamic Compliance Advisor at Beneficent Relief. He also contributes as an instructor at Miftaah Institute and serves as a chaplain at the University of Windsor.