‘The Best Centuries’ – How should we understand history? – 2
MORE THAN A TOOL for the transmission of hadiths, the isnād informed history, politics and power. ‘Alī al-Dayrī’s work The Best of Centuries:…
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MORE THAN A TOOL for the transmission of hadiths, the isnād informed history, politics and power. ‘Alī al-Dayrī’s work The Best of Centuries:…
A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING of heritage should be a necessity for those who specialize in religious sciences. We have specialists writing…
THE QUR’ĀN DOES NOT talk about a story of revelation to Muḥammad as it did with the Jewish prophets, and there…
MĀLIK MUSULMĀNĪ MAKES the following comments on al-Kindī’s Risāla: We understand from the Risāla of al-Kindī that the Qur’ān in the beginning was…
THERE WAS NOTHING TERMED ‘Islam’ during the reign of John of Damascus. He termed it a heresy or the ‘religion of…
THE SCHOLARS ACKNOWLEDGE that the Qur’ān has undergone distortion, but the generality of the people are unaware of this. The original…
WE THEN FIND HIM declaring the existence of distortion in the article ‘Qur’ān’ for the Encyclopaedia Islamica, where he states: ‘there…
AS FOR THE HISTORICAL narrative on scientific, literary and cultural progress in Islamic lands, from the Rightly-Guided Caliphate through the…
IF WE TAKE the first example, the man wearing patchwork, this refers to ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. The Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamā‘a…
EGYPTIAN SOCIETY, for example, has never monitored the culture and behaviour of Egyptians in the way that the scholars of…