FULL COURSE (8 SEMESTERS) - Started on 8/12/23
In 2022, we launched the Discover the Quran course - a 14 week sprint through all 114 chapters providing a brief overview of the central themes of each Surah.
Now, we are delighted to introduce a full line-by-line tafsir of the Quran in a brand new course, Journey through the Quran.
Join Shaykh Dr Asim Yusuf for this unique and long awaited Quran tafsir, consisting a complete commentary on the Quran. We will be covering 1/4 juz each week, looking at the meaning, context and guidance of the entire Quran.
Please note we have completed the first semester which covered Suras Baqara and Ali Imran - around 1/8th of the Quran.
We are currently on Semester Two of the course, which will cover Suras al-Nisa to al-A'raf.
Each of the next six semesters will cover approximately the same extent of the Quran.
It will also provide an analysis of 15 popular English-language translations, to help students navigate the minefield of options.
Shaykh Asim on journeying through the Quran
Weekly recorded video presentations uploaded, each covering 1/4 juz of the Quran (about 5 pages of the ‘Saudi’ Quran)
Over 120 weekly videos split over 8 semesters (approx 32 months)
Once monthly in-person session at a location in Birmingham
Full Tafsir of the entire Quran over 8 semesters
If you have enrolled for the complete Quran course, you do NOT need to enrol again. All new semester content will be automatically uploaded to your student platform. You can access it by simply logging into your student account and clicking on the Quran course.
In total, the entire tafsir will require eight semesters (120 sessions). If you select the option to enrol for the full course (i.e. all eight semesters in one go), there will be no need to enrol for any further semesters.
Mainly yes, a new recorded video presentation of the lesson will be uploaded each week to the learning platform, which you may access using your log in details when you enrol for the course. There will also be a monthly in-person session held each month providing an opportunity for those students who live in the local vicinity of Birmingham, UK to sit with the teacher and to ask their questions too.
If it's the first time you are enrolling on a course with us, you will be prompted to create a student account. You can select your own username (usually your email) and password to create the account. Don't forget to save your login details as you will require it to access the student platform. Your logins are only known to you and you may use them to securely access your courses on your dashboard. As we offer other courses on our website, we advise ALWAYS using the SAME email for enrolling on any of our courses so everything is kept together on one account. If you use multiple emails to enrol, you will need to access that course using the email you used to register.
We do not permit sharing the course content with others outside your home, however we do encourage members of your immediate family/ household (spouses/parents and kids etc.) to sit together and listen to the lessons. If you are aware of anyone who could benefit from this course, consider asking them to enrol on the course by visiting our website.
The monthly in-person session will be held at the Eidgah Academy, 124 Walsall Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 1SG, UK. As we are now starting the second semester of this course, the first monthly in-person session will be held on the 7th of June 2024 at 8pm. The session will be approx 90 minutes in duration. Subsequent in-person dates for 2024 can be found in the table below.
The monthly sessions will consist of a recap of the themes of each juz upon its completion. There will also be an opportunity for questions raised during the month to be answered. Lastly, a specific Quran related topic will be introduced during each live session.
Yes, it will. We will provide the link to you on the student platform. You can access it by logging into your student account.
Eidgah Academy, 124 Walsall Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 1SG, UK
Dates Coming Soon
Monthly In-Person Livestream link:
The monthly in-person session is open to all whether you are enrolled or not.
Biography
Shaykh Dr Asim is one of the most senior English speaking scholars in the UK, and has studied widely and received authorisation from senior scholars from around the world. In particular, he is considered an international authority in Islamic Psychology and its philosophy, and a specialist in Islamic bioethics, astronomy, and metaphysics.
Most pertinently for this course, he has engaged in detailed readings of a number of major classical works of tafsir with some of the most senior scholars in the world. In addition to a general permission to teach tafsir, he has a specific authorisation to transmit the tafsir works of Ibn Kathir, al-Baydawi, al-San’ani, al-Nasafi, al-Zamakhshari, as well as the Itqan and other Quran-centric works of Imam al-Suyuti – all with multiple unbroken chains of transmission.
His studies have included the majority of the branches of the Islamic sciences, including advanced study of theology, philosophy, Islamic law (primarily Hanafi, but also basic studies of the Shafii and Maliki schools), Quranic hermeneutics, the principles of hadith critique, juristic principles (both approaches), the grammar and philosophy of the Arabic language, classical and modern logic, western and Islamic rhetoric, hadith commentary, shamail and tasawwuf. He has taught most of these subjects over the years.
He also narrates with specific the six canonical works of hadith, as well as the Muwatta of Malik and several other major classical works of hadith, via some of the best and highest chains of transmission in the world. Each of these entailed either complete or near-complete readings with over thirty senior scholars.
He teaches advanced classes in analytical theology, metaphysics, the philosophy of Islamic law and the theoretical study of mystical experience. Since 2014, he has been engaged in a complete reading, commentary and analysis of the Ihya Ulum al-Din of Imam Ghazali, and has to date completed the first third of the forty volumes with his students.
Professionally, the Shaykh is a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director for Mental Health Services in the Black Country, with a special interest in Islamic spirituality and mental health, about which he is regularly invited to lecture internationally at Universities, including Oxford, Cardiff, Chicago and Toronto.
He is the author of several books, most notably Shedding Light on the Dawn, as well as being a poet and lyricist better known by his pseudonym Talib al-Habib, with three well-received nasheed albums to his name. Shaykh Asim is the Emeritus and Founding Chair of the British Board of Scholars and Imams, the largest and most diverse scholarly organisations in the Western world.
