• Cankaya University
    • ity http://www.cankaya.edu.tr/eng/index.php Historical Background After spending over forty years in the field of education, next to Arı Primary School and Arı High School, an investment in higher educa...
    • Imam Ali Mosque
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    • Imam Muhammad Al-Taqi (PBUH)
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    • Sohar University
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    • History of the Shrine of
    • of Imam Ali Al-Naqi & Imam Hasan Al-Askari (PBUT) The modern city of Samara is situated on the bank of the river Tigris some sixty miles from the city of Baghdad. The city is of outstanding importance because o...
    • The Tenth Imam Ali bin Muhammad Al-Hadi (PBUH)
    • UH) Born inMedina 5th Rajab 214 Hijri (8.9.829 AD) Died inSamara, Iraq 3rd Rajab 254 Hijri (1.7.868) aged 40 years Period of Imamate 34 years The period of Imamate of our 10th Imam coincided with the decline of th...
    • Connected Chain of Transmission
    • on (اتصال السند): A chain of transmission which is connected without interruption in such a manner that it is logically acceptable that the succeeding narrator received the hadith from the preceding one. Therefore, there sho...
    • The Issue of Riba in Islamic Faith and Law
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    • Chamran University of Ahvaz
    • vaz Iran http://www.cua.ac.ir/ History After Shapur the First, the Sassanid King, conquered the Roman Emperor, commanded the Roman POWs to build a new town in a location that was 18 Kilometers south-Eas...
    • Hazrat Fatimah(pbuh) in the verse of Counsel (42:23)
    • Say: `No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin. And if anyone earns any good, We shall give him an increase of good in respect there of for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready to appreciate (service). (42: 23)...
    • Al-SHAMS (The Sun)
    • Sun) Name The Surah has been so designated after the word ash-shams with which it opens. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the style show that this Surah too was revealed in the earliest period atMecca at a stage w...
    • Hadith terms
    • rms Connected Chain of Transmission (اتصال السند): A chain of transmission which is connected without interruption in such a manner that it is logically acceptable that the succeeding narrator received the hadith from th...
    • Abu Sahl Waijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi
    • uhi ( about 940 in Tabaristan [now Mazanderan, Iran]- about 1000) There are two spellings of al-Quhi's name in English which seem to appear about equally often, namely al-Quhi and al-Kuhi. We can deduce from al-Quhi's na...
    • University of Warsaw
    • aw Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~arabistyka/index.html History The Department was established in 1964 as an independent Chair for Arabic and Islamic studies. It was created and heade...
    • Bangladesh Agricultural University
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    • Law and Power in the Islamic World
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    • Al Ghazālī, Causality, and Knowledge
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    • Qadi Zada al -Rumi
    • mi ( 1364 in Bursa, Turkey-1436 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan) Qadi Zada means "son of the judge" and we must assume that indeed Qadi Zada's father was the judge. Qadi Zada, however, is not his proper name which w...
    • AL-LAIL (Night)
    • ht) Name The Surah takes its name from the wordwal-lail with which it opens. Period of Revelation Its subject matter so closely resembles that of Surah Ash-Shams that each Surah seems to be an explanation of the other. It is...
    • German Islamic Institute
    • ute http://www.dii-edu.com/ Tasks and adjectives: The German Islamic Institute for Scientific and Cultural Cooperation was founded in March 2000. Its aim is to promote understanding between cultures and nations, in...
    • Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance (BIBF)
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    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
    • rms (6) Bariqah: A flash of illumination or inspiration from God in the soul of man, which does not tarry long. Bari Irminiyas: De Interpretatione (The Interpretation), the title of the second of Aristotle’s book on ...
    • CHAPTER 1
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    • AL-BALAD ([This] Countryside)
    • ide) Name The Surah has been so named after the wordal balad in the first verse. Period of Revelation Its subject matter and style resemble those of the earliest Surahs revealed at Mecca, but it contains a pointer which indi...
    • University Engineering and Technology
    • ogy Lahore- Pakistan http://www.uet.edu.pk/index.php History UET Lahore is the oldest Pakistani teaching institute for pure engineering sciences and received its charter as a University in the year 1961. It ha...
    • AL- GHASHIYAH (The Pall)
    • all) Name The Surah takes its name from the word al-ghishiyah in the first verse. Period of Revelation The whole subject matter of the Surah indicates that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed; but this wa...
    • Haigazian University
    • ity Lebanon http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/ HISTORY & VISION Haigazian University is named in honor of Dr. Armenag Haigazian, former headmaster of the Jenanian Apostolic Institute of Konya,Turkey. Dr. Haigazi...
    • FATIMA IN QUR'AN
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    • AL-FAJR (Daybreak)
    • eak) Name The Surah is so designated after the wordwal-fajr with which it opens. Period of Revelation Its contents show that it was revealed at the stage when persecution of the new converts to Islam had begun inMecca. On ...
    • Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL)
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    • I
    • I Ibn Abi al-Hadid , Sharh Nahj al-Balaghah, ed.M. Abu al-Fadhl Ibrahim, 20 vols.; Cairo, 1959-1964. Ibn Abi Shayba , 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (b. 775 or 776, d. 235/849), Al-Kitab al-musannaf fi l-ahadith wa-l-athar, 15...
    • Some Logical Fallacies Dealt With In the Qur'an
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    • Mulla Hadi Sabzewari
    • ri (1212/1797[-8] - 1289/1873) Mulla Hadi Sabzawari was the most influential nineteenth-century Iranian philosopher. His reputation rests in part on his Sharh al-manzuma, a commentary on his own Ghurar al-fara'id (The Blaze...
    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
    • rms (5) Al-ummahat al-sufliyah: “the lower mothers”: and expression used to denote the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. Al-ummahat al-‘ulwiyah: “the higher mothers”: as opposed to al-ummahat al-sufliyah (the l...
    • Al-TARIQ (The Nightcomer)
    • omer) Name The Surah taken its name from the wordal-tariq in its first verse. Period of Revelation The style of its subject matter resembles that of the earliest Surahs revealed at Mecca, but this surah was sent down at a st...
    • Taqlid:
    • id: Blind Adherence or Rational Acceptance? Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina University of VirginiaIn the age of reason the question of taqlid (literally," blind adherence") becomes highly unpalatable. In the age known f...
    • Mansoura University
    • ity http://www.mans.edu.eg/english/default.htm Foundation The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University. The name was changed toUniversity of Mansoura in 1973. It is considered ...
    • Tayammum
    • mum Tayammum is an act of worship consisting of wiping the forehead and the two hands. It is a substitute for wudu' and ghusl. Tayammum is performed in place of Wudhu or Ghusl when: 1.      No...
    • Al-A′LA (Glory to your Lord)
    • ) Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-A'la in the very first verse. Period of Revelation The subject matter shows that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed, and the words: "We shall enable you...
    • Theodor Noldeke
    • eke (March 2, 1836 - 1930) Theodor Noldeke, German Semitic scholar, was born at Harburg, and studied at Göttingen, Vienna, Leiden and Berlin. In 1859 his history of the Koran won for him the prize of the French Acad...
    • Classes of Narrators ‏(طبقات الرواة):
    • ) : This term is applied to narrators of similar status such as nearness in age, even approximately and in terms of meeting with elder narrators. Note: Tabaqat , pl. of tabaqa, "everything which is related to another...
    • Abu'l Abbas al-Fadl ibn Hatim Al-Nayrizi
    • (about 865 in possiblyNayriz,Iran- about 922 in possiblyBaghdad, Iraq) Al-Nayrizi was probably born in Nayriz which was a small town southeast ofShiraz now in central Iran. Certainly he must have been associated with th...
    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
    • rms (4) Al-usul al-muta'arafah: Self-evident first principles or axioms like a part is less than the whole of which it is part, equals added to equals are equals or two contradictories cannot be true of the same thing a...
    • University of Birmingham
    • ham http://www.general.bham.ac.uk/ Islamic studies has been taught atBirmingham since the 1930s. In 1976 the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (CSIC) was founded, and in 1991 an undergra...