The Avasana of Abda Latif Al-Baghdadi

Abda Latif Al-Baghdadi studied at the same Baghdad madrassa where Arghazali and Ashachastani had served as teachers. He went through the standard curriculum of study for a religious scholar, learning by heart works on grammar, law and hadith. This practice of rote memorization sounds tiresome to us, but Abda Latif swore by it. If you really know a book, it should make no difference whether you lose your physical copy," he said.