Shaykh Kemal Cecunjanin will be coming to the Hartford area to teach Ascent to Felicity, A Manual on Islamic Creed and Hanafi Jurisprudence. If you are interested please sign up here:

Flyer:
Flyer – Shaykh Kemal Class on Jurisprudence & Islamic Creed

Audio:
Class 1 
Class 2 coming soon

Book Information:
Written by the eminent 11th century Hanafi scholar, Abu ’l-Ikhlas al-Shurunbulali, Ascent to Felicity is a concise yet comprehensive primer in creed and jurisprudence. It spans all five pillars of Islam, as well as the topics of slaughtering, ritual sacrifice, and hunting. To supplement the text, the translator has added key explanatory notes taken from several reliable works on theology and jurisprudence. He has also added appendices that comprise numerous supplications related to the five pillars, presented in Arabic script along with English transliteration, as well as the etiquette of visiting the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) in Madina Munawwara.

Testimonials:

“An admirable rendering into lucid, fluid English of Imam Hasan al-Shurunbulali’s primer of Hanafi law, Ascent to Felicity. This concise but thorough work focuses on the five acts of worship. The book has the added feature of a fairly detailed presentation of the basics of the Muslim Creed. In translating this introductory section of Imam Shurunbulali’s treatise, Khan’s skill as a translator is on full display, as he has made sometimes involved theological concepts easily accessible to the average English reader. Khan has provided an additional service to both Shurunbulali’s work and to contemporary Muslims by augmenting the translation with insightful and extremely useful explanatory notes. The value of this work, skillfully produced by White Thread Press, goes far beyond its benefit to adherents of the Hanafi legal school. Rather, it will prove of benefit to Muslims in general as well as researchers interested in latter-day presentations of the creed and practice of Sunni Muslims.”

— Imam Zaid Shakir Co-Founder and Resident Scholar, Zaytuna College

“This book is an important contribution to the growing, but still small, corpus of traditional Islamic texts available in English translation.”

— Dr Ingrid Mattson President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)

“Essential for any student of the Hanafi School. . . makes key concepts of the Hanafi school easily accessible to teachers, students, and readers.”

— Dr. Ashraf Muneeb Dean of Academy, Sunnipath.com

“An excellent primer in Islamic beliefs and worship. . . more useful as a first complete text for those seeking understanding of the fiqh of worship than the more commonly-studied Nur al-Idah.”

—Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Educational Director, Seekersguidance.com

“Aside from the flowing translation, the most impressive thing about this work for me is the comprehensive collection of nuanced notes. These serve to capture the wide range of issues one grapples with, but might never find the right answer to, in the process of his or her purification, prayer, fasting and other acts of worship. An extremely engaging and educational read.”

— Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Scholar, ZamZamAcademy.com

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Imam Kemal Cecunjanin

Imam Kemal Cecunjanin was born in Brooklyn, New York.  In 1999 he traveled to the Middle East where he lived and studied for ten years. He first traveled to  Damascus, Syria where he began studying Arabic at the University of Damascus, then moved to Amman, Jordan to study under Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller. While in Amman, Imam Kemal completed the Classical Arabic program at the Qasid Language Institute and he also studied Shafi jurisprudence, logic and theology with Sheikh Qusay Abu S’id; Hanafi jurisprudence with Sheikh Faraz Rabbani; and Arabic and Qur’an with Sheikh Ali Hani. He also studied in Tarim, Yemen at Dar Al-Mostafa and Ribat Tarim and attended lessons with Habib Umar Ibn Hafiz and Habib Salim Al-Shatiri. Imam Kemal was the Imam at the Islamic Unity Mosque in Astoria, New York and is the founder of mimber.org. Imam Kemal currently teaches at Jesus Son of Mary Mosque in Stratford, Connecticut and the M.E.C.C.A. Center in New York City, and is also the director of the Iqra Qur’an program at Masjid Al -Noor in Bridgeport, Connecticut.