Nuh Ha Mim Keller
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Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, is an American Muslim translator of Islamic books and specialist in Islamic Law as well as an authorised sheikh in tasawwuf in the Shadhili Sufi order and in the Shafi Madhhab who currently lives in Amman, Jordan . Born in 1954 in the Northwestern United States of America, he was educated in philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and University of California at Los Angeles. He converted to Islam in 1977 at al-Azhar in Cairo, and later studied the Islamic sciences of hadith (Prophetic traditions), Shafi'i and Hanafi schools of Islamic jurisprudence, legal methodology (usul al-fiqh), and tenets of faith (`aqidah) in Syria and Jordan, where he has lived since 1980.
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His English translation of Umdat al-Salik, Reliance of the Traveller, (Sunna Books, 1991) is the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of Al-Azhar University, the Muslim world's oldest institution of higher learning. The book, which has become a modern classic, is a bestseller and has had numerous print runs. It is an example the English language of a complete orthodox Sunni work on the Shariah. He also possesses ijazas, or "certificates of authorisation", in Islamic jurisprudence from sheikhs in Syria and Jordan.
His other translations and works include:
- Al-Maqasid : Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, a shorter manual of Shafi'i fiqh
- A Port in the Storm: A Fiqh Solution to the Qibla of North America, a detailed and complex study of the most sound position on which direction North American Muslims should face to pray.
- The Sunni Path: A Handbook of Islamic Belief
- Evolution Theory in Islam
He has also written numerous articles is presently a regular contributor to Islamica Magazine. He is currently translating Imam Nawawi's Kitab al-Adhkar (The Book of Remembrance of Allah), a compendium of some 1227 hadiths on prayers and dhikrs of the prophetic sunnah.
He was authorised as a sheik in the Shadhili Tariqa by the late as-Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri as-Shadhili al Hashimi ad-Darqawi as-Shafi al Ashari al Dimashqi as-Shami (May Allah have mercy on him) in Damascus. He has students throughout the world, and has annual retreats (suhbas) with his students where he teaches the traditional science of tasawwuf in Canada, USA, UK, Turkey, Australia, Egypt, and Pakistan.
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- A number of articles and audio-lectures by Nuh Keller
- Shadhiliteachings.com — Lessons in Tasawwuf by Shaykh Nuh Keller
- Shadhlilitariqa.com — Regularly updated site containing articles and speeches by Shaykh Nuh Keller
- Translation and commentaries of sections from The Book of Wisdom of Ibn Ataillah - [1], [2], [3], [4]
- Dala'il al-Khayrat published by Shaykh Nuh
