Shaykh Allāmah Muhammad Zāhid al-Kawthari (Rahimahullah), in his celebrated article Rihlat al-'Ilm ("The Journey of Knowledge"), explains that throughout Islamic history the primary centre of sacred learning has continually shifted from one region to another. He writes that in the earliest period, the foremost seat of Islamic scholarship was Madinah Munawwarah. Thereafter, it moved to … Continue reading The Centres of Islamic Knowledge