Shaykh Ali: Islam, Iman and Ihsan THIS SUNDAY

Leeds New Muslims invites you to:

Islam, Iman, Ihsan

Date: Sunday, 19th May, 4pm-6pm

Venue: Cardigan Centre, Cardigan Road, Leeds

Leeds New Muslims would like to invite you to our next event, which is a talk by Shaykh Ali Laraki on the three fundamental aspects of the Deen: Islam (Submission), Iman (Belief)  and Ihsan (Excellence).

Shaykh Ali is the founder and principal teacher of the Meem Institute, an organisation which provides online courses in various aspects of Islamic Studies. A brief biography is below.


He is Ali ibn Abdulhaq Al-‘Iraqi al-Husaini. Born in Malaga (Spain) in 1965 and brought up in Tangier (Morocco).

He holds a degree (Ijaza) in Shari’a and Usul ad-Din by the European Faculty of Islamic Sciences (France). He has studied Islamic Sciences in the traditional way with various ‘ulama like Shaykh Muhammad Al Kassbi (Morocco), Sidi ‘Abd as-Salam Afkir (Morocco), Shaykh Muhammad an-Naifar (Tunisia), Shaykh Muhammad al-Lakhwa (Tunisia), Sidi Muhammad al-Wazzani (Morocco), holding ijazat from some of them.

He has translated into Spanish and commented on the Risala of Ibn Abi Zaid al-Qairawani, the Hikam of Ibn ‘Ataillah, the Ajurrumiya of Ibn Ajurrum, the Dala’il al-Khairat of Al-Jazuli, the Burda of Al-Busayri. He is also the author of The Practical Guidebook (a commentary on the Al-Murshid al-Mu’in of Ibn ‘Ashir), ‘Aqida-Two treatises on Muslim Creed, A commentary on Surat al-Fatiha, An Introduction to the Science of Tasawwuf, A Treatise on Islamic Governance and a number of other works.

He has lived and taught in South Africa, Spain, the USA and the United Kingdom. He has been Imam Khatib in Newark NJ (USA), Madrid (Spain), the Jumu’a Mosque of Cape Town  (South Africa) and a lecturer in Islamic Studies there at the Dallas College. He has been Imam Khatib at the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich where he taught Tafsir, Ash’ari Aqida and Maliki fiqh.

He currently holds the position of Main Teacher and Adviser of The Meem Institute, an institution established in Leicester in 2011 in order to transmit the three aspects of the Deen: Islam, Iman and Ihsan.