Who or what is a Salafi? Is their approach valid?
Their basic claim is that Islam has not been properly understood by anyone since the prophet Mohammed and the early Muslims - except themselves.
By Nuh Ha Mim Keller
What is the distinction between hadith and sunna?
Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller dispels the confusion.
Becoming Muslim - by Nuh Ha Mim Keller
"I studied philosophy at the university and it taught me to ask two things of whoever claimed to have the truth: What do you mean, and how do you know? When I asked these questions of my own religious tradition, I found no answers, and realized that Christianity had slipped from my hands."
The story of American former Catholic, Nuh Ha Mim Keller, who in the 25 years since his conversion has gone on to become one of the leading contemporary scholars of Islam.
Would you advise individuals to study hadith from al-Bukhari and Muslim on their own?
"There are benefits the ordinary Muslim can expect from personally reading hadith... but without a guiding hand, the untrained reader will misunderstand many of the hadiths," cautions Nuh Ha Mim Keller.
What is a Madhhab? Why is it necessary to follow one?
"The slogans we hear today about 'following the Qur'an and sunna instead of following the madhhabs' are wide of the mark...In reality it is a great leap backward, a call to abandon centuries of detailed, case-by-case Islamic scholarship in finding and spelling out the commands of the Qur'an and sunna," argues Nuh Ha Mim Keller.
"Who needs the Imams of Sacred Law when we have the Qur’an and hadith? Why can’t we take our Islam from the word of Allah and His Messenger?" Nuh Ha Mim Keller explains the necessity to respect and value scholars and the schools of Islamic law.