Mohamed's Journey From Australia To Morocco In Pursuit Of Knowledge

A promising student of knowledge, Mohamed Acharki is currently studying the Islamic sciences with scholars, as well as the humanities at an Islamic University in Morocco. He will return to Australia in the near future to benefit the Australian Muslim community. We are in need of locally engaged scholars, native to the English language, addressing issues in a critical and creative way.  On behalf of Sanad Foundation, we hope supporting this student is the first of many to develop local scholars and thinkers, necessary to engage the wider Australian community. More information on Sanad Foundation is below.

Where Will Your Funds Go?

Your funds will help provide a scholarship for books, accommodation and tuition. Through Sanad Foundation, it will prolong students of knowledge to study and become grounded in both Islamic traditional and spiritual sciences as well as Western intellectual thought relevant for a contemporary Australian context.

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Mohamed’s Credentials

Bachelor of Education and Arts (Sociology) – University of Melbourne

• Awarded with high distinction

Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and Politics) – La Trobe University

• Awarded Emeritus Scholarship (highest mark in the Arts faculty)

Master of International Relations – Monash University

• Awarded high distinction with a thesis on the thought of the contemporary philosopher, Taha Abdurrahman on Modernity, Islam and the West.

Mohamed Acharki in Class

His further credentials in traditional Islamic sciences include:

•  Hafidh of Qur’an(memorised with chain)

• Quranic Sciences(Ulum ul Quran)

• Hadith and Hadith sciences (Hadith and Ulum ul hadith)

• Islamic law, jurisprudence and Islamic legal theory (Fiqh and Usul ul fiqh)

• Spiritual sciences (Ilm ul ihsan)

• Arabic sciences of grammar, morphology, rhetoric (nahw, sarf, balagha)

• Arabic classical poetry and their commentaries

   

All of this aforementioned study has been undertaken with qualified scholars and over an extended period of time. Mohamed has also received a tazkiya – a letter of recommendation detailing most of this study from esteemed scholars locally in Melbourne.

Mohamed Acharki's Residence

Who Is Sanad Foundation? 

Sanad Foundation aims to strengthen the connection between theAustralian Muslim Community and its Islamic heritage. It seeks to meet the educational and intellectual challenges facing Muslims in contemporary Australia by funding and developinglocal Islamic scholars, specialists and thinkers. 

The Foundation took its first steps when localstudents helped fund a promising individual –Mohamed Acharki, seeking Islamic knowledge abroad. The money raised facilitated his study, allowing him toattain a higher proficiency in Arabic, memorise the Quran, study classical texts under licensed scholars, as well as various fields of the Islamic human sciences and contemporary thought.

The Foundation board members include Shaykh Abdinur Weli, Ramzi Elsayed, Ghaith Krayem and Maryum Chaudhry among others. The board will officially launch the Sanad Foundation and Fund inthe coming months. Its vision is to create a unified Australian MuslimCommunity connected to its Islamic Tradition, who positively contributes to the Australian society. We define Islamic intellectual tradition in its most comprehensive sense - both the strictly religious sciences as well as the values expressed in revelation to approach different fields of inquiry and practice including humanities, social sciences, business and other disciplines.

Detailed Credentials

A comprehensive list of texts of the traditional Islamic sciences studied:

In Australia:

• Arabic sciences of grammar, morphology, rhetoric and literature, (including the Alfiyya of ibn Malik) and developed a high competency in Arabic.
• Studied in Arabic both beginners and intermediate texts in the Islamic sciences of Islamic creed (Aqeeda), Hadith Sciences (Ulum-Ul-Hadith), Law (Fiqh), Islamic Legal Theory (Usul-Al-Fiqh), Spirituality sciences (Ilm ul Ihsan) and several works in contemporary Islamic thought.

Muslim Community in Melbourne, Australia

In Morocco:

• He memorised the entire Qur’an.

• In Fes - Arabic Grammar (Ajrumiyya), and recited the Commentary of Ibn ‘Ashir to Scholars of the University of Karaouine, the oldest university in the world

• In Tetouan – currently undertaking Islamic studies at Ibn Sa’ud Humanities University, studying Quranic Sciences (Ulum Al-Quran), Islamic creed, Hadith Sciences, the History of Islamic Legislation, Maliki Jurisprudence (fiqh), Arabic Grammar, Morphology, Semantics, and Islamic Thought and philosophy.

• Regularly attended the circles (halaqaat) of Shuyukh in which he studied the:

  • Alfiyya, Jama’ Al-Jawami’ in Usul Al-Fiqh

  • Fiqh Al-‘Ibadat in Maliki Fiqh

  • Al-Muntakhab in Maliki School legal maxims

  • Subul As-Salam (Sharh of Bulugh Al-Maram) in Ilm ul Hadith.

• He is currently studying in such private circles:

  • Miftah Al-Wusuul in Maliki Usul

  • Ar-Risala in Maliki Fiqh

  • The Sharh of Tirmidhi in Fiqh of Hadith

  • Dala’ilAl-‘Ijaz in Arabic Rhethoric and Quran Studies

  • The commentaries (Sharh) of some Famous Cannons of Arabic Poetry (e.g. the Diwan of Mutanabbi) in the Moroccan mountains.