Lowry, Joseph E

Al-Sayyid ʿAlī Khān Ṣadr al-Dīn Ibn al-Amīr Niẓām al-Dīn Aḥmad Ibn Maʿṣūm (d. 1120/1708) was an Arabic literary figure who was active mainly in India and wrote primarily in the fields of poetry, poetics, and adab (belles-lettres). A Shīʿī descended from both al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusa…

ʿĀmm and khāṣṣ , often translated as “general” and “specific,” respectively, are a key pair of technical terms in the Islamic and Arabic sciences. They are most intensively discussed in writings on Islamic legal hermeneutics (uṣūl al-fiqh) , at the intersection of law (fiqh) , t…