Hamza Karamali earned his BASc. and MASc. in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, after which he moved abroad to study the Islamic sciences full-time in private settings with distinguished traditional scholars in Jordan, Kuwait and the UAE, reading and memorizing traditional works in all of the Islamic sciences.
He taught the Islamic sciences online at SunniPath.com, then at Qibla.com, then taught advanced Arabic grammar and rhetoric at Qasid Institute, and then joined Kalam Research & Media, where he worked for three years, designing, managing, and participating in research and education projects around the integration of modern analytic philosophy and science with traditional Islamic theology and logic. He is the author of The Madrasa Curriculum in Context, as well as a forthcoming work that presents traditional Islamic logic in the idiom of contemporary logic and philosophy.
Hamza joined SeekersGuidance in 2016, where he has taught courses on logic, legal theory, and Islamic theology. He also has a regular podcast and video series called Why Islam is True, in which he applies logic and traditional Islamic theology to answer contemporary questions about belief in God, the genuine messengerhood of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), and the truth of resurrection and the afterlife.
Courses Taught
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- BLBS350A- Intermediate Islamic Theology: Bajuri’s Commentary on the Sanusiyya Explained (Part One)
- BLBS350B- Intermediate Islamic Theology: Bajuri’s Commentary on the Sanusiyya Explained (Part Two)
- BLIL300- Introduction to Islamic Logic: Abhari’s Isaghuji Explained: Mental Inference in the Islamic Sciences
- BLSB200- Introduction to Islamic Theology: Sanusi’s Umm al-Baraheen Explained: Why Islam is True
- ILLT200- Sacred Legal Theory (Shafi’i): Juwayni’s Waraqat Explained (Part One): Your Moral Responsibility to God and How to Discern it
- ILSW301A- Intermediate Sacred Law (Shafi‘i): A Textual Study of Ibn Qasim al-Ghazzi’s Commentary on Matn Abi Shuja (Part One): The Rules of Purification