Islam

ISBN: 9781614910312
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East
Volume: 1
The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled “Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State,” held at the University of Chicago on June 17–18, 2011. The goal of the co... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780993588426
Published by : The Shīah Institute Press
Series: Maktabat al-Turāth al-Shīʿī
Al-Allāmah al-Ḥillī’s Mabādiʾ al-wuṣūl ilā ʿilm al-uṣūl is a testament to the revival of Shīʿī scholarship in the seventh and eighth centuries of the Hijrah. This highly-condensed text set the standard for the subsequent development and discussion... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780993588402
Published by : The Shīah Institute Press
Series: The Shīʿah Heritage of South Asia
Miʿrāj al-ʿUqūl Sharḥ Duʿāʾ al-Mashlūl (The Ascension of the Intellects: Commentary on the Supplication of the Lame) is Ghāzīpūrī’s magnum opus; a comprehensive, recondite, treatment of the issues relating to the Divine Attributes, in the form of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781898592327
Published by : Azimuth Editions
Despite their distinct theological differences, Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, followers of the two main branches of Islam, share a number of core beliefs including an allegiance to and love for the Prophet Muhammad and members of his family. For Shi'a ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718902230
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Al-Junayd (d. 910) was one of the most significant figures of the formative period of Islamic mystical thought and practice in the third to ninth centuries. This volume contains an account of his life, personality and writings; his doctrine; an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199684335
Published by : Oxford University Press
Using a comprehensive evaluation of recent archaeological findings, Avni addresses the transformation of local societies in Palestine and Jordan between the sixth and eleventh centuries AD. Arguing that these archaeological findin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094167
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718902223
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar') of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780906094563
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yu... .... Learn More