JOHN H. HARVEY Review of the ‘Book on Pharmacy and Materia Medica’ AMONG the greatest of the early scientists who…
By Mehmet Bayrakdar Although al-Nazzam made the first steps in the field of biological evolutionary thought in the history of…
For Ibn Khaldun, even the shift in Muslim military tactics in the late Ummayed period away from the closed formation…
Just as the Believers must pray behind the Imam, whatever his moral standing, so in orthodox Sunni theory he must…
This debate, as well as other disagreements among the jurists of siyar were referred tothecanonichadith in which the Prophet instructs…
S. Abdullah Schleifer It was the religious scholars, the ‘ulama, who addressed themselves from the earliest period to the recurrent and…
S. Abdullah Schleifer Witnessing (Ash-,Shahid – The Witness), and His Angels bear witness to the shahid’s extraordinary spiritual rewards; the…
S. Abdullah Schleifer Modern scholarship, in accord with traditional Islamic jurisprudence, has generally treated jihad in the context of military…
Al-Qassam (left). The Grave of Sheikh ‘Izz-Id-Din Al-Qassam in Balad Al-Sheykh (right) Al-Qassam told his disciples that if there was…
However, according to Hanifi, Sheikh al-‘Alarm’s “close contact” was his brother, who held the post of Mufti and chief chaplain…