A Selection of Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith

Dr Yasser Qureshy is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College. His research interests rest in two main areas: the tradition referred to as the ma’qūlāt (Islamic rational sciences), focusing on the related disciplines of ‘ilm al-kalām (philosophical theology), uṣūl al-fiqh (legal theory), manṭiq (Logic), and falsafa (Islamic/Arabic philosophy); and the western philosophical tradition, focusing mainly on areas in Metaphysics, Logic, and the history of Medieval and Modern Philosophy.

After undergraduate studies in Philosophy, Shaykh Yasser read a MA in Medieval Arabic Thought and completed a PhD in Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge. He has spent over a decade studying the Islamic intellectual tradition in Damascus and Istanbul. Previously he held the inaugural fellowship in Islamic Theology at ISAR Foundation and was Faculty Lecturer in Islamic Theology at the University of Istanbul. He continues to supervise undergraduate students for the Faculties of Philosophy and Divinity at the University of Cambridge.