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  • January 23, 2020

    Man, Universe & Macro Theology: Created in God’s Image

    Apart from being story-telling creatures, we humans are also meaning-seeking creatures. Once we’re fed, clothed and sheltered, we have an inner tendency to want to find purpose and meaning in things. No matter how much we’re surrounded by comforts, or how much our needs and wants are catered for, we have an innate drive and Continue reading

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    adoring g yourselves with the attributes of God[liness], al-Suyuti on Man’s theomorphic nature, explaining the hadith of man being created in God’s image, hadith about beginning of creation, how was the Big Bang discovered?, human hearts are mirrors for God’s attributes, Ibn al-Qayyim on adorning ourselves with Allah’s attributes, Ibn Taymiyyah on Man being a small universe or microcosm, is the Hidden Treasure hadith sound?, islam and Man’s theomorphic nature, takhalluq bi akhlaqillah

About Me

My name is Surkheel Sharif (aka Abu Aaliyah). Born and raised in London, England, I began my more formal, but gradual studies of the Islamic sciences around the late 1980s (just a few years after having quit my degree in Astrophysics). I also gained an MA in Islamic Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2009.

I’ve translated a few Islamic works from Arabic into English; one of them, a short text on Muslim spirituality, called The Exquisite Pearl (2000). I have also authored a few books, including: More Fish Please & the Earth’s Complaint (2011); Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban & the Golden Rule of Differing (2011); A Muslim’s Guide to Modernity (2025); and Salafism Reconsidered (forthcoming)

I am the founder and current Director of the Jawziyyah Institute (est. 1999): a non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating an Islam true to its time-honoured tradition, relevant to its current context, and of benefit to wider society. 

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