Habib ali al jifri biography of christopher

Habib Ali Al-Jifri is the holder of degrees in Islamic sciences, and is the founder and director-general of the non-profit privately-funded Tabah Foundation for Islamic Studies in Abu Dhabi.

Al-Jifri began his pursuit of knowledge in his early childhood. His first teacher was his mother&#;s great aunt, a scholar of the Islamic sciences and spiritual educator.

At the age of nine he was introduced to Habib Abdul-Qadir al-Saqqaf. Al-Jifri went on to spend over ten years in his company and studied many renowned works, including various hadith collections and the Ihya of Imam al-Ghazali (Revival of the Religious Sciences). Having learnt both the outward, theoretical knowledges and the inward, spiritual sciences at the hands of Habib Abdul-Qadir, Al-Jifri spent a further ten years in the company of Habib Umar bin Hafiz, starting with him in the Northern Yemeni city of Bayda where he spent time at the school of the erudite scholar Habib Muhammad al-Haddar.

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