Abdassamad Clarke on the film Blessed are the Strangers (2020), the Habibiyya, & the Norwich mosque

This conversation reflects on subjects related to the film Blessed are the Strangers (2020) and the leadership and intellectual legacy of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi al-Murabit ad-Darqawi.
We discussed:
His own conversion to Islam and taking Shaykh Abdalqadir as his shaykh of instruction, the early Habibiyya in Bristol Gardens, London, England, and Wood Dalling Hall, Norfolk, and the Norwich Ihsan Mosque experiences, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Habib of Meknes and the Moroccan roots of the Habibiyya Sufi Tariqa, the beginnings of the Murabitun World Movement, and Abdassamad Clarke's thoughts on a Madinan approach to establishing Islam in the west as related to the community and relationship based model of Prophetic Islam in Madinah, and other matters.
Abdassamad Clarke is an author, journalist, Arabic translator, editor, typesetter, and partner in Diwan Press. He was born in Ulster, and studied Maths and Physics in Edinburgh before embracing Islam in 1973 at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi (Ian Dallas). He then studied Tajwid of Qur'an and Classical Arabic, and other Islamic sciences in Cairo Egypt. He later served as secretary to Dublin Mosque's imam, Sheikh Yahya Muhammad al-Hussein, and then as one of imams and khatibs of the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich England. He currently resides in Denmark.
In the ‘80s he did some freelance work for the Irish Press, Irish Times, and Sunday Press, and was published in The Phoenix magazine. He blogs at bogvaerker.dk/... but more often on his Facebook page and on X (Twitter).
His CZcams Channel is www.youtube.co....
The film Blessed are the Strangers(2000) can be found at www.thestrange...
The film was produced by Ahmed Peerbux, Sean Hanif Whyte, and Mike Freedman, and explores the origins and relationships between two British Muslim communities, the Brixton Mosque in London and the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich, their members' stories of conversion to Islam, embracing Sufi spirituality at the hands of Shaykh Abdalqadir, and finding mutual brotherhood and fellowship in the Norwich Muslim community around the Ihsan Mosque.