The Islamic Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit organisation publishing content across the classical disciplines of the Islamic sciences. Its mission is to transmit the knowledge of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah to English-speaking readers with fidelity to the scholarly tradition from which that knowledge descends.
Transmission Over Opinion
The content on this site does not represent the personal views of its editors. What is published here is what the scholars of the Sunni tradition have established, transmitted, and agreed upon across the centuries. The role of IKF is to relay that knowledge clearly and faithfully, not to add to it, revise it, or reinterpret it in light of contemporary sensibilities.
Where the scholars differed, we present their positions as they stated them. Where the scholars reached consensus, we state that consensus without qualification.
Creed: The Ashʿarī and Māturīdī Schools
The creedal content on this site follows the Ashʿarī and Māturīdī schools of ʿAqīdah. These two schools represent the articulated theological tradition of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah. Their differences are terminological and methodological; on the foundational matters of Islāmic belief they are in agreement. Together, they constitute the mainstream of Sunni theology as carried by the scholars from the time of the Companions to the present day.
IKF does not publish creedal content that departs from this tradition. Content that attributes corporealism, direction, or spatial limitation to Allāh, or that delegitimises the established practice of tawassul and the veneration of the Prophet ﷺ and the righteous, has no place on this platform.
Jurisprudence: The Four Madhhabs
In matters of Fiqh, IKF recognises the four established legal schools: the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, and Ḥanbalī madhhabs. All four are valid expressions of the Islāmic legal tradition, each grounded in the Qurʾān and the Sunnah and carried by an unbroken chain of scholarly transmission. Where rulings differ between the schools, they are presented clearly and attributed correctly. No school is disparaged in favour of another.
IKF does not publish legal content derived from independent scriptural interpretation by those outside the established scholarly tradition.
Classical Sources
All content published on IKF is adapted from authenticated works of traditional Sunni scholarship. Sources are selected for their standing within the transmitted tradition, their grounding in the Ashʿarī or Māturīdī creedal framework, and their acceptance among the scholars of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah. A description of the categories of sources IKF draws from is available on the Scholarly Sources page.
The Scholars We Draw From
IKF draws from the scholarship of those who stood within and served the mainstream Sunni tradition: scholars of the Islamic sciences whose works have been transmitted and studied across generations. The names of the Ashʿarī and Māturīdī imāms, the Fuqahāʾ of the four schools, the masters of Tazkiyah, and the scholars of Sīrah and Ḥadīth are the authorities on whose works this platform is built.
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