Re: Your religious knowledge
Peace All
Assalamu'alaikum and many blessings be upon all in these days of Ramadan.
My sources of Islamic knowledge in chronological order.
My Mum - learning Qur'an and Prayer
My Dad - Learning about Islamic general topics
The Message film - when very young
Christian - Muslim dialogue book at age 8 when I started Dawah
Local Qari - to correct my Mukhrij
At first Behishti Zewar (basics) - Book
Reliance of the Traveller - Book
Ahmed Deedat videos
Qur'an translation after those videos
School (secularised subject learning i.e. Heinman books)
Variety of Encyclopedias
Various ad-hoc Halaqahs at college by students of knowledge from Yemen, Saudi and Egypt and two sessions with Sheikh Abu Sufyan
I actually learned quite a bit from some Hizb-u-Tahrir brothers and I attended some of their open seminars and discussion forums.
Really started to internalise on Jumma Khutbas
Hamza Yusuf videos
Harun Yahya books
Imam Bukhari from London (rep of Islam Channel in UK) he taught me how to use Lexicon and we did an in-depth study of the requirements of Muslims from Surah Al Furqan.
Dr. Zakir Naik videos and leaflets
Various other videos - e.g. Dr. Jamal Badawi, Imam Siraj Wahaj, Khalid Yasin
From a friend Marwan (he has had the most influence on me) who has gone on to become Hifz of Qur'an and studied in traditional style in Malaysia, now he attends circles under Nuh Ha Meem Keller in Jordan.
Another friend Pav
More specialised books, I learned a lot about Islam from non-Islamic sources, I have gained an in-depth insight about end times accounts from the same non-Islamic sources.
The Bible
Two good friends of mine Khidr who is the youngest son of the eldest wives of the second most powerful man in Nigeria and Usman who is Pakistani by origin born in the UK and lived most of life in Saudi mashaAllah he knows a lot of Qur'an off by heart and many hadith, I learned the process of Istikhara from him.
One halaqah with Sheikh Sayid Muhamamd Al Yaqoobi
Internet (including Gupshup), a profound influence on me was a man who became Muslim from Unitarian Christian recently he has some of the most amazing insights on Qur'an that I have seen and also his pen name on the internet is Mithridates. Other than him brother MuslimCONVERT and Sister Dakotadove.
My Wife
An online course (with my wife) by Imam Zaid Shakir on Getting Right With Allah
40 Hadith classes
Sirat of the Prophets (ongoing in these days with local Muslims) inshaAllah I intend to do Tajweed in near future and inshaAllah another course from Zaytuna Institute.
Peace again