Year: 2025

Islamic Studies: International General Certificate of Secondary Education IGCSE The online Islamic Studies lnternational General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) course is ideal for females aged 14-16 years (exam optional). Applications for younger students and […]

Weekend Islamic Studies Course for Girls Aged 9+ An online Islamic Studies course for girls aged 9 and above, taught by female tutor Dr Naheed Anwar. This weekend class is ideal for those with busy […]

About the Tutor Dr Naheed Anwar is a tutor and researcher in Islamic Studies and Sociology, with over 25 years of teaching experience. Raised and educated in Oxford, she went on to complete her undergraduate […]

Further, the strict and rigid guidelines inherent to Salafism ended the uncertainty and chaos most respondents experienced in relation to “the complex choices presented by modern life”, a finding that closely resembles Davidman’s (1991) study […]

Consequently, even though respondents gave several reasons for seeking out ‘authentic’ knowledge once, they became Salafi the most significant one was the firm belief that its pursuit was an obligation for every individual, male or […]

The quest for ‘authentic’ knowledge in pursuit of an absolute truth, or Islam in its most ‘pristine’ form sourced from the Qur’an, Sunnah and the sayings of the Salaf was thus a major theme that […]

Nor was this search confined to those suffering the malaise of generations of displacement in the West—Muslim heritage (MH) respondents from both the global North and South underwent a similar process of deculturalising Islam (albeit […]

The growing availability of literature on Islam in the English language, alongside the increasing pressures of living with the “weight” of a hyphenated identity (Zaal et al. 2007:164), began impelling second-generation British Muslim youth to […]