Inspire and revive your faith by learning in depth, about the beautiful story of Mary according to Quran. Learn how Allah chose this single woman to be the best example and how her struggles relate to yours more than you think.
Watch this video for a preview of this groundbreaking course!
Why a class on Mary? Why Now?
Allah says in Quran that it contains the "greatest stories" and that it's stories are related "in truth". When Allah singles out an example, we should want to know everything about it and ponder over how the lessons can relate to our life.
This practice inspires a deeper closer relationship with God.
This course will take a deep dive into who Mary was starting with the environment surrounding her birth to the birth of Isa(Jesus)
You will learn:
- How and why Mary was chosen by Allah far before Jesus was born.
- Why she was a revolutionary woman for her time period.
- What distinguished her from any other human being
- The differences between what the Jews, Christians, and Muslims believed about her
- The hardships she overcame
- How our struggles can relate to her struggles and the inspiration her story can provide.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
USTADHA ZAYNAB ANSARI
Zaynab Ansari spent a decade studying Farsi, Arabic, and traditional Islam, sitting with male and female scholars in seminaries in the Middle East, including traditional scholars in Damascus in the 1990s. Upon her return to the United States, she earned degrees in history and Middle Eastern Studies from Georgia State University.
Since 2014, Zaynab Ansari has served as a scholar-in-residence for Tayseer Foundation, offering enrichment courses and halaqahs to women and youth in the Muslim Community of Knoxville, and working on interfaith dialogue. She is currently an instructor at Tayseer Seminary, which features a one-year intensive in Islamic Studies, drawing students from Tennessee and all regions of the United States.
Ustadha Zaynab has previously written and taught for SunniPath. She has been a freelance writer for Azizah Magazine, a certified speaker with the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta, and a contributor to online Islamic educational portals such as SeekersHub. She has also served as the coordinator of oral histories for the After Malcolm Project, a digital archive of African-American Muslim history. She is part of the teaching faculty of the Ribaat Program, an online Islamic Studies curriculum led by Anse Tamara Gray, a leading woman scholar of traditional Islam. She is also a board member of Tayseer Seminary.