Uzbekistan Spiritual Legacy

About the Webinar

Date: Sunday 17th November 2024
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Topic: Journeying to Uzbekistan – Essential Travel Guide and Historical Sights

Uzbekistan is in Central Asia landlocked between Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan and was formerly part of the Soviet Republic. The region has a rich Islamic heritage and famous for its Islamic architectural designs of Masajid, mausoleums, Islamic Madrasahs and beautiful sceneries. It was well-known for the Silk Road, an ancient trading route that connected China and the Mediterranean. It is part of the region of ma wara an-nahr (beyond the Oxus River) often referenced in the classical Fiqh literature that divides Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Its population comprises of diverse ethnic groups with 90% being Sunni Muslims. Since its independence from the Soviet Republic in the early 90s, there has been a gradual Islamic renaissance of Islamic scholarship and reconstruction of the historical Islamic landmarks and culture.

Among its ancient cities, Tashkent, Bukharah, Samarqand and Tirmidh became the epicentres of Islamic scholarship. Many prestigious scholars and Shuyukh such as Imām Bukhari, Imām Tirmidhi, Shaykh Bahauddin Naqshbandi, Shaykh Abdul Khaliq Gijdiwani, Shaykh Abū Hafs al-Kabir (may Allāh have mercy on them all) to name but a few lived and died in these regions. In this webinar, Mufti Abdul Waheed will elucidate through a PowerPoint presentation some of the historical Islamic landmarks of these ancient cities and tombs of great luminaries he explored during his recent visit to Uzbekistan with Mufti Ashfaq Sahib (Bradford) in August 2024 .

Topics covered
1. Travel Advice and Tips
2. Short history of Uzbekistan
3. Historical Landmarks
a) Tashkent
b) Samarqand
c) Tirmidh
d) Bukhara
4. Concluding reflections

About the Lecturer
Mufti Abdul Waheed currently serves as a full-time researcher at JKN Fatawa Department over a decade to date. All of his research fatawas are approved and published on the JKN Fatawa website under the attestation of Shaykh Mufti Saiful Islam. Many of the fatawas Mufti Abdul Waheed has answered in the past until now include divorce, marriage, dietary laws, finance and personal worship. He has performed Hajj three times and performed all three types of Hajj. As part of the JKN Fatawa Department project, he also provides Islamic counselling to support married couples struggling with their marriage relationship. He has delivered workshops related to marriage and contemporary fiqh issues for many years locally and nationally. He also lectures at JKN Institute in Bradford in Islamic sciences such as, Tafsir (Jalalain), Fiqh (Hidayah), Usool-ul-fiqh (Usool Shashi), Arabic syntax and Islamic research (Buhooth al-Islamiyyah). He also lectures in the Takhassus fil fiqh course, a three-year part-time course which specialises in training students in Ifta at JKN Institute and Al-Balagh Academy.
His primary interest lies in minority fiqh and pedagogical development in Ifta training. Alhamdulillah, he completed two detailed dissertations; the first one he completed in June 2020 exploring minority fiqh and shariah councils and the second most recent MA thesis dissertation on empirical investigation of British Ifta training programs at Warwick University.