Reza Shah-Kazemi

Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi is an author in the fields of Islamic studies and Comparative Religion. He obtained a Ph.D in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and has been involved in important interfaith initiatives for the last two decades. He has edited, translated and written numerous books and articles…See more

The Seminars

In this series, Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi will discuss The Book of Certainty by Dr Martin Lings, also known as Shaykh Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn. The talks will be in the form of seminars where Reza will start by reading a few pages from the book, then elucidate some of the meanings. The audience will then be invited to participate and engage in a Q&A session.

The Book of Certainty: The Sufi Doctrine of Faith, Vision and Gnosis was first published in 1992 by the Islamic Texts Society. The book expresses the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, encapsulating some of the universal truths which ‘lie at the heart of all religions’. Dr Lings was asked by friends in Egypt in the early 1950s to write a book before he leaves. He wrote this book as an attempt to distil the quintessence of Sufi Qur’anic exegeses, woven into a universal prospective. His aim was to make accessible some of the great gems of Universal Spirituality expressed through commentaries on Qur’anic verses.

We would like to thank the Institut Kajian Dasar (IKD), Institute for Policy Research in Kuala Lumpur for their help in organising this webinar.