Download or read book The Passion of Al Hallaj written by Louis Massignon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abridged from the four-volume "The Passion of al-Hallaj, " one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr, and in so doing describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. Louis Massignon (1883-1962), France's most celebrated Islamic specialist in this century and a leading Catholic intellectual, wrote of a man who was for him a personal inspiration. -- Back cover.
Download or read book Religion and Cooperation Between Civilizations written by George F. McLean and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book E J Brill s First Encyclopaedia of Islam written by E. J. Brill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islamic Philosophy and Theology written by William Montgomery Watt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the standard general account in English of Islamic philosophy and theology. It takes the reader from the religio-political sects of the Kharijites and the Shiites through to the assimilation of Greek thought in the medieval period, and onto the early modern period. Watt concludes with an analysis of Western influences on modern Islamic theology.
Download or read book Anthropomorphism in Islam written by Livnat Holtzman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close, contextualized, and interdisciplinary reading in Hadith compilations, theological treatises, and historical sources, this book offers an evaluation and understanding of the traditionalistic endeavours to define anthropomorphism in the most crucial and indeed most formative period of Islamic thought.
Download or read book Actas written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought written by Michael Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we have a duty to stop others doing wrong? The question is intelligible in any civilisation, but only in the Islamic tradition is 'commanding right and forbidding wrong' a central moral tenet. Michael Cook's analysis is the first to chart the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation.
Download or read book The History of al abar Vol 1 written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of the thirty-eight volume translation of Ṭabarī's great History begins with the creation of the world and ends with the time of Noah and the Flood. It not only brings a vast amount of speculation about the early history of mankind into sharp Muslim focus, but it also synchronizes ancient Iranian ideas about the prehistory of mankind with those inspired by the Qur'an and the Bible. The volume is thus an excellent guide to the cosmological views of many of Ṭabarī's contemporaries. The translator, Franz Rosenthal, one of the world's foremost scholars of Arabic, has also written an extensive introduction to the volume that presents all the facts known about Ṭabarī's personal and professional life. Professor Rosenthal's meticulous and original scholarship has yielded a valuable bibliography and chronology of Ṭabarī's writings, both those preserved in manuscript and those alluded to by other authors. The introduction and first volume of the translation of the History form a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic historiography in English and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for those who are interested in Middle Eastern history but are unable to read the basic works in Arabic.
Download or read book Hajj Umrah According To All Four Schools Of Jurisprudence written by Qazi Fazl Ullah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and a very important but a complicated type of Ibadah (worship) as Mus-lims from all around the world get together to perform it together. They follow the interpretation of their Imams (jurists), so sometimes they look at others when they do not perform a specific virtue the way they do, then they think they are doing wrong, which is not so, but all of them are performing correctly according to the interpretation of their Imams. This book gives all these details in sequence according to all four imams the Muslim Ummah follows.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology written by Sabine Schmidtke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of IslamicTheology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a variegated picture of the state of the art and at the same time suggests new directions for future research.Part One covers the various strands of Islamic theology during the formative and early middle periods, rational as well as scripturalist. To demonstrate the continuous interaction among the various theological strands and its repercussions (during the formative and early middle period and beyond),Part Two offers a number of case studies. These focus on specific theological issues that have developed through the dilemmatic and often polemical interactions between the different theological schools and thinkers. Part Three covers Islamic theology during the later middle and early modernperiods. One of the characteristics of this period is the growing amalgamation of theology with philosophy (Peripatetic and Illuminationist) and mysticism. Part Four addresses the impact of political and social developments on theology through a number of case studies: the famous mihna instituted byal-Ma'mun (r. 189/813-218/833) as well as the mihna to which Ibn 'Aqil (d. 769/1367) was subjected; the religious policy of the Almohads; as well as the shifting interpretations throughout history (particularly during Mamluk and Ottoman times) of the relation between Ash'arism and Maturidism thatwere often motivated by political motives. Part Five considers Islamic theological thought from the end of the early modern and during the modern period.
Download or read book The Biography of Muhammad Ibn Jarir al Tabari written by IDP Research Division and published by Islamic Digital Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jareer al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur'an who composed all his works in Arabic. Today, he is best known for his expertise in Tafsir, Fiqh, and History, but he has been described as an impressively prolific polymath. He wrote on such subjects as poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine. His most influential and best known works are his Qur'anic commentary known as "Tafsir al-Tabari" and his historical chronicle "Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk" (History of the Prophets and Kings), often referred to "Tarikh al-Tabari". He was also known to be a Faqih (Jusrist) like the four Illustrious Imams (Abu Hanifah, Anas b. Maalik, Idris Shaafi'i and Ahmad b. Hanbal). Although it eventually became extinct, al-Tabari's madhhab flourished among Sunni ulama' for two centuries after his death. It was usually designated by the name Jariri. It is merely a matter of interest for those to want to read and learn more about this great scholar of Islam who is hardly known to many Muslims in this day and age. Contents of the Book: Introduction A Remark on the Sources His Birth and Early Life His Quest for Knowledge His Fifty Years of Scholarly Activity in Baghdad His Physical Description and Habits His Scholarship His Death Some of His Works About Islamic Digital Publishing Visit our eBook Store at: www.payhip.com/idpebooks Contact us at: [email protected]
Download or read book Islamic Philosophy Science Culture and Religion written by Felicitas Opwis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.
Download or read book Anthropomorphic Depictions of God written by Zulfiqar Ali Shah and published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). This book was released on 2012 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental study examines issues of anthropomorphism in the three Abrahamic Faiths, as viewed through the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur’an. Throughout history Christianity and Judaism have tried to make sense of God. While juxtaposing the Islamic position against this, the author addresses the Judeo-Christian worldview and how each has chosen to framework its encounter with God, to what extent this has been the result of actual scripture and to what extent the product of theological debate, or church decrees of later centuries and absorption of Hellenistic philosophy. Shah also examines Islam’s heavily anti-anthropomorphic stance and Islamic theological discourse on Tawhid as well as the Ninety-Nine Names of God and what these have meant in relation to Muslim understanding of God and His attributes. Describing how these became the touchstone of Muslim discourse with Judaism and Christianity he critiques theological statements and perspectives that came to dilute if not counter strict monotheism. As secularism debates whether God is dead, the issue of anthropomorphism has become of immense importance. The quest for God, especially in this day and age, is partly one of intellectual longing. To Shah, anthropomorphic concepts and corporeal depictions of the Divine are perhaps among the leading factors of modern atheism. As such he ultimately draws the conclusion that the postmodern longing for God will not be quenched by pre-modern anthropomorphic and corporeal concepts of the Divine which have simply brought God down to this cosmos, with a precise historical function and a specified location, reducing the intellectual and spiritual force of what God is and represents, causing the soul to detract from a sense of the sacred and thereby belief in Him.
Download or read book The Formation of Hanbalism written by Nimrod Hurvitz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of law. This study moves beyond conventional biography to integrate the story of Ibn Hanbal's life with the main events during a crucial formative period in Islamic history.
Download or read book Ahmad ibn Hanbal written by Christopher Melchert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali. Upholding the view that the Qur’an was uncreated and the direct word of God, Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) thought that the holy text should be read literally, rejecting any possibility for metaphorical or revisionist interpretation. Showing that even in his own lifetime, ibn Hanbal’s followers were revising his doctrines in favour of a more commodious Islam, Melchert assesses the importance of ibn Hanbal’s teachings and analyses their relevance in modern Sunni Islam.
Download or read book Concepts of the Other in Near Eastern Religions written by Ilai Alon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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