About The Helping Guide:
Ibn Ashir's didactic poem on creed, basic fiqh and tasawwuf is perhaps the single most memorized text in the African Maliki tradition. It has been used for over four hundred years throughout North and West Africa and is noted for the ease with which it is memorized and the clarity that it provides in the three central tenets of Iman, Islam and Ihsan. This is the first translation to be accompanied by a critical Arabic edition as well as an unprecedented biography of the author and his times. It includes excellent charts and other useful tools for the student of sacred knowledge and will be of interest to a wide range of students, teachers and researchers.
The text is the second completed work of the Zaytuna Curriculum Series.
About the Translator:
Hamza Yusuf is an American convert to Islam who studied for several years under leading scholars in the Muslim world. He is the co-founder of the Zaytuna Institute in California and has translated into modern English several classical Arabic texts and poems, including the latest rendering of the thirteenth-century devotional poem, The Burda: The Poem of the Cloak. His most recent works include Purification of the Heart, a translation with commentary of a nineteenth-century text that examines the spiritual conditions and treatments of the heart; and The Content of Character, a collection of sayings from the Prophet Muhammad
regarding the essence of character and behavior. The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi is the first text in the Zaytuna Curriculum Series.
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