LSE IFS (Islamic Finance and Ethics Society): Earning a living

Abdassamad Clarke speaking about Imam Ghazali’s work on ‘Right Livelihood and the Common Good’, the 13th book from his collection ‘The Revival of the Islamic Sciences’. The talk is based on Dr. Adi Setia’s (student of Sh. Naquib al-Attas) paper that is a translation of the text and will work to develop understanding of traditional mu’amalat (transactions) and economics in the modern age.

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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016. He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there. 14 May, 2023 0:03

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