A first for South Africa: all are welcome to witness the first females-only completion ceremony of a group of females who will be completing various Qirāʾāt, under a female teacher. Muʿallimah Ayesha bint Ganief Abrahams is the only female in South Africa to have attained sanad and ijāzah in the 14 Qirāʾāt; the Ten canonical […]

Various Qurʾān Programmes in the Cape The Cape was blessed with a visit by one of the leading Qurʾānic scholars in the world, Dr ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUbayd. Born in Saudi Arabia, 1966, Dr ʿAbd Allah has travelled the world in his quest for knowledge, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, […]

The past Sunday, 12 October 2014, marked another milestone for Capetonians in the Quranic arena when Muallimah Rādiyah Bawa completed the Qirā’ah (Reading) of Abū ‘Amr al-Basri. This is the second time in the history of Cape Town, and the broader South Africa, that a female completed this particular Qirā’ah. The first female to complete […]