Shabir Ally | |||||||
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![]() Shabir Ally in 2013 | |||||||
Personal life | |||||||
Born | c. 1953 Guyana | ||||||
Main interest(s) | Da'wah | ||||||
Education | Laurentian University (BA) University of Toronto (MA, PhD) | ||||||
Religious life | |||||||
Religion | Islam | ||||||
Denomination | Sunni | ||||||
Jurisprudence | Hanafi | ||||||
YouTube information | |||||||
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Years active | 2008–present | ||||||
Genre | Islamic | ||||||
Subscribers | 390 thousand [1] | ||||||
Views | 49 million [1] | ||||||
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Last updated: 2 February 2024 | |||||||
Website | shabirally |
Shabir Ally (born 1953) is a Guyanese-Canadian Islamic scholar. As of 2020, he was President of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto. [2] [3] [4] [5] He promotes a contextual interpretation of Qur'anic verse, and justification of them in similar expressions within the Christian Bible. [6] [7]
Ally performs dawah by adopting preaching methods targeted at both the Muslim population and the non-Muslim population. [8]
Shabir Ally was born in c. 1953 in Guyana, and moved to Canada with his family in 1978. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies from Laurentian University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. [9] His PhD thesis was on the exegesis of the Qur'an (Tafsir). [10]
Despite his conservative upbringing, many views of Shabir Ally differ significantly from the Traditional Conservative Mainstream Islamic scholars.
Hijab
Shabir Ally argues that covering the hair isn't mandatory for women in Islam. [11] [12] [13] [14]
Stoning
Stoning adulterers is not a part of Islam according to Shabir Ally. [15]
Hadith
Shabir Ally questions the process of Hadith classification done by many traditional scholars and doubts the true authenticity of many Hadiths which have been classified as authentic by other traditional scholars. [16] [17] [18]
Ijma/Consensus
Shabir Ally calls into question the idea of a scholarly consensus (ijma) as a source of Islamic law. He says there is no consensus on the definition of a scholarly consensus, there is disagreement about whose agreement matters, the time period and location of the consensus, the scope of matters covered, and even the source of the authority of this consensus. [19]
Celebrating Non Muslim Festivals
Celebrating Christmas [20] [21] and Halloween [22] is not prohibited for Muslims according to Shabir Ally.
Evolution
Shabir Ally argues that the theory of evolution is not incompatible with Islam. [23]