Responding from the Tradition: One Hundred Contemporary Fatwas by the Grand Mufti of Egypt muslims and the founder of a

and the founder of a Sufi order

there is a place deep within where we all meet

Focusing on twelfth-century Arab aristocrat Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation but also including extracts from The Book of the Staff and Kernels of Refinement

We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages

Responding from the Tradition: One Hundred Contemporary Fatwas by the Grand Mufti of Egypt muslims and the founder of aThis book is a collection of 100 fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) authored by the Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa with the express purpose of addressing issues that have been controversial amongst Muslims and have been the cause of discord. Sheikh Gomaa has selected these questions from the many thousands that have been submitted to him over the years in his capacity as Grand Mufti as well as a respected expert in Islamic law previous to his