Darul Iftaa Camperdown (Madrasah In'aamiyyah)

Official fatwa site of Madrasah In'aamiyyah, Camperdown, answering in Hanafi and Shafi'i fiqh and running a two-year Iftaa programme. The madrasah was founded on the instruction of Haji Ahmad Moosa Desai by his son Mawlana Mahmood Madni Desai with one teacher and one student, named after Mawlana In'aamul Hasan Kandhlawi; teaching is in English with local and foreign students. Mufti Ebrahim Desai was senior Shaykh al-Hadith and head of its Darul Ifta for ~10 years before 2011. Current head mufti is not named on the site.

Founded: Madrasah In'aamiyyah: 17/18 January 1994 (Darul Iftaa a department; Takhassus fil-Iftaa offered)

Most of these answers were recovered from web archive copies of iftaa.co.za; the newest 55 were captured from PDF printouts, so their Arabic references may show extraction artefacts.

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  Mawlana Mahmood Madni Desai (rahimahullah) (1953–2016)

  Founder & principal, Madrasah In'aamiyyah

  Born 1953 in Madinah; hifz at Mia's Farm, studied at Darul Uloom Falahi Darain (Tadkeshwar) and completed the Alim course in Faisalabad under Mufti Zainul Abidin (Khatm al-Bukhari by Maulana Yusuf Binnori, 1976). Bay'ah with Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi and khilafah from Maulana Muhammad Talha, Mufti Muhammad Faruq Mirathi and Maulana Azizur Rahman; served as translator for Hazratji In'amul Hasan. Founded PMB's first hifz madrasah (1978) and Madrasah In'aamiyyah (1994); later President of Jamiatul Ulama KZN. Died 28 August 2016.

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  Mufti Ebrahim Desai (rahimahullah)

  Former senior Shaykh al-Hadith & head of Darul Ifta, Madrasah In'aamiyyah (c.2001–2011)

  Taught at In'aamiyyah for about ten years and supervised its Takhassus fil-Iftaa (e.g. Mufti Husain Kadodia 2003–04, Mufti Abrar Mirza) before founding Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah in 2011. See AskImam entry for full biography.

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  Mufti Muhammad Zakariyya (Desai)

  Son of the founder; first student of the madrasah

  The founder's son Mufti Muhammad Zakariyya was the madrasah's first student in 1994 and led his father's janazah in 2016. His current role at the Darul Iftaa is not stated on the pages fetched.

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