Mohammed Zaqir ShaikhAfter graduating from Manchester University with a BA (Hons) inPolitics and Economics, Mohammed Zaqir studied in Damascus, Syria for 8 years at the Prestigious Abū Nūr Institute and studiedseveral classical disciplines of Islamic knowledge t the handsof some of the most prominent holders of the tradition bothinstitutionally and privately.He has also been blessed with the opportunity to spend time inthe illuminated city of Tarīm, Ḥaḍramaut; where he studied at theeminent Institute Dār al-Muṣṭafā, under the qualified hands ofsome of the most illustrious guides of knowledge. Being classicallytrained in the sacred sciences he has attained formal ijazahs invarious Islamic Disciplines.He had the honour of studying with Shaykh Adīb Kallās, ShaykhTawfīq al-Būṭī, Shaykh Muḥammed Khayr al-Haykal, ShaykhḤabīb Umar bin Hafīẓ, Shaykh Ḥassān al-Hindī, Shaykh Abd al-Salām Shannār, Shaykh Sāmir al-Naṣṣ, Shaykh Abd al-RaḥmānArjan al-Baynhwi, Shaykh Abd al-Hakim Ḥassan, Shaykh AbūAḥmed al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanbalī, Shaykh Abd al-Qādir al-Khaṭīb, Shaykh Yāsīn Hafiẓ, Shaykh Khālid Kharṣā', Shaykh Badī' al-Sayyidal-Laḥḥām, Shaykh Iqbāl Aḥmed al-Aẓamī, Shaykh Moa'taz al-Subaynī, Shaykh Hodja Ala' al-Dīn al-Kurdī, Shaykh Moḥammedal-Jumma, Shaykh al-Mujāhid Riyāḍ al-Kirākhī and others, mayAllah have mercy on them all.Some of the texts which he studied and gained licenses to teachinclude Marāqī al-Falāḥ, al-Hidāyah, al-Ikhtiyār, Īḍāḥ al-MubhamSharḥ alā al-Sulam, al-Bāqqalānis al-Insāf, al-Muwāqif, Sharḥala al-Aqā'id al-Nasafiyyah, Ḥashiyah alā al-Jawhara al-Tawḥīd, al-Aqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, al-Iqtiṣād fī al-I'tiqād, Nūr al-Anwār, al-Waraqāt, Qaṭr al-Nidā, Sharḥ Ibn Aqīl alā al-Alfiyyah, Dalā'ilal-Ijāz, Asrār al-Balāgah, Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī, al-Nasafī, Nuzhat al-Naẓar, Irshād Ṭullāb al-Ḥaqā'iq and many others.He is the director of the Darul Arqam Educational Trust inLeicester where he teaches in various venues around the countryand is the Jummah lecturer during the Read More Read Less