The World Before Me

This captivating and intriguing travelogue covering 20 countries visited by the revered Shaykh al-Islam Mufti Taqi Uthmāni (May Allāh Most High protect him) offers for its reader an eye of reflection and an opportunity to marvel over the wondrous creation of Allāh. It highlights Muslim enthusiasm and influence in the diverse regions of the world and their sincere efforts to lay a platform for observance of the injunctions of Deen and protection of its upcoming generation despite the various challenges thrown at them.

Shaykh al-Islam Mufti Taqi Uthmāni is one of the world's most prominent scholars of the Islamic sciences and former Justice of the High Court of Pakistan. Born at Deoband, India, in 1943, he studied with leading ‘ulamā' in Karachi and elsewhere. His main fields of expertise are hadith, jurisprudence, sufism, and economics. Mufti Usmani has published numerous books and articles, in Urdu, Arabic and English, on many aspects of Islamic studies