Islam
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Shabnam Virmani [Virmani, Shabnam]

~ The path is festooned With juicy vines Hold the camel close Always on a leash Tasting them He may go wild In conversing with the evolving camel-nafs Shah Latif ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs,Lowry, Joseph E.

CHAPTER ON KNOWLEDGE 434 Al-Shāfiʿī said: Someone asked me: “What is knowledge? What knowledge is incumbent on people?” Knowledge is of two kinds, I replied: knowledge of the general public, ...
( Category: Administrative Law March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Budd, James

The following month an Israeli patrol boat ran aground on the demilitarized eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The boat was clearly in violation of the 1949 ceasefire agreement, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1998-06-14 | Author:Kanan Makiya [Makiya, Kanan]

The historical importance of what happened in Iraq that summer lies not in the events themselves but in how they were interpreted by the population. All accounts are unanimous in ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:Stroumsa, Sarah;

Pseudo-Empedoclean Neoplatonism The origins of the theory of an Andalusian “school of Pseudo-Empedocles” go back to the nineteenth century, when Salomon Munk and David Kaufmann believed they had found in ...
( Category: History March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Wolfe

The Bible casts Hagar in a passive role. Weeping, lost in a wilderness, she sits with eyes averted, unable to watch her child's death. Muslim legend describes a more active ...
( Category: Mecca March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mohammed Akram Nadwi

AHL AL-RAY AND AHL AL-ḤADĪTH In this section I take up the question of why Abū Ḥanīfah was the object of criticism from a group of scholars – or, rather, ...
( Category: Law March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Scott B. Noegel & Brannon M. Wheeler

– N – NABI. Standard biblical Hebrew term for prophet with a long history in the ancient Near East (see also PROPHET). The term also appears in Arabic as the ...
( Category: World March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-31 | Author:C. Snouck Hurgronje [Hurgronje, C. Snouck]

IV ISLM AND MODERN THOUGHT One of the most powerful factors of religious life in its higher forms is the need of man to find in this world of changing ...
( Category: World March 24,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-02-17 | Author:Sheindlin, J.K [Sheindlin, J.K]

The man who wasn’t there According to legend and contemporary scholars, Bukhari actually travelled alone to the farthest reaches of the caliphate. We know this because the man never made ...
( Category: Sunnism March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Kennedy [Kennedy, Philip F.]

Dialogue with a Jewish Taverner Remember true friends whose mounts I led To a taverner’s house, arriving at midday; His “zunnar” girdle told us he was not a Muslim, So ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chase Robinson [Robinson, Chase]

Fiscal Policies Changes in the army mirrored changes in the administration: just as ‘Abd al-Malik imposed a measure of direct control over the army by replacing tribal chieftains with salaried ...
( Category: Religious March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

Having obtained this promise, the messenger, whose name was David, proceeded; "I am sent by Werdan to entreat that the battle may cease, and the blood of brave men be ...
( Category: Religious March 24,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Ralph Stice [Stice, Ralph]

Can I ask you to read that last line again, keeping in mind it was penned by the former ambassador from the country he is discussing, not some foreign journalist? ...
( Category: Prophecies March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-17 | Author:Ahmed Hussain [Hussain, Ahmed]

The late Sir John Gorst created a sensation when he declared in the House of Commons that great countries were governed by mediocrities only. The world knows nothing of its ...
( Category: History March 23,2020 )