This doctoral thesis examines the works of Theodore Abū Qurra (d.c.829), Abū Rā’iṭa (d. c.835), and ‘Ammār al-Baṣrī (d.c.850); three of the earliest known Christian theologians to explain and defend their beliefs in Arabic, under Islamic rule. In particular, it focuses on their …
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Kitab al-Wajiz fi Dhikr al-Mujaz: wa al-Mujiz: by Abu Tahir al-Silafi (d.576/ 1181) is an important treatise on ijazah [one of the eight methods of the transmission of hadith], which also includes the biographies of those transmitters [in the 5th-6th centuries H.] of hadith who …
Iran has been in the headlines in the recent years and decades for many socio-political reasons. Many of these involve the confrontation between Islamic revolutionary values and the foreign policies and aspirations of Western governments. Among the Iranian state’s revolutionary …
The present thesis is a critical examination of the two well-known post-Schachtian scholars of Hadith; James Robson and John Burton. Both scholars are major contributors to modern Hadith studies in the West. It assesses their main arguments and their methodological approaches to…
The present thesis is an attempt to understand Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili’s thought and to illustrate his original contribution to the development of medieval Islamic mysticism. In particular, it maintains that far from being an obscure disciple of Ibn Arabi, Al-Jili was able to overc…
This study addresses the relationship between the veil and the constitution of what I have tenned the Muslim female subject in the field of visual and popular culture, with a special emphasis on film. My case-studies range from European historical texts to contemporary visual cu…
This study investigated the development and implementation of cooperative learning in two Saudi classrooms seeking the perspectives of teachers and pupils. A review of the literature suggests that efforts to introduce cooperative learning have tended to be initiated in Oceanic, …
This study examines the concept of al-Maslaha wa al-Nass (Public Interest and Islamic legal text) with special reference to Kitab al-Buyu (chapter on business transactions) in the book of Bulügh al-Maram. The analysis moves from the connection formed between al-Maslaha and al-Na…
This study is in response to the widespread dissatisfaction of Information Scientists in the Muslim World, who feel that Islamic literature deserved and required an Islamic classification scheme. Conceptually Muslim Information Scientists have attempted to establish an analytica…
This thesis, which is an analytical study and annotation of the book entitled Al-Tibyan fima Yahill wa-Yahrum min al-Haywan by Ibn al-'Imad al-Aqfahsi, is divided into two parts. The first part contains a study of the book and its author, while the second part contains the Arabi…
Over the years, the season of Hajj has always represented the major source of living not only for the people of Makkah, but for the whole region of Hijäz In the years preceding World War II and before the oil was discovered, Hajj was the economic backbone of the whole Kingdom of…
This research is an analytical study and an edition of Sürat al-Fätiha and Sürat al-Baqara from a copy of the manuscript that is the tafsir ascribed to Ibn 'Abbas according to the transmission of al-Kalbi from Abü Sälih. Historians reckon some ninety-eight copies of this manuscr…
A valuable manuscript written by Imam Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Salim Al-Saffārinī Al-Hanbali (1114-1188 AH / 1702-1774 CE). There are two manuscripts available at Princeton University library in the United States of America and copies at Jum'ah Al-Mäjid Center for Culture and Heri…
With the fall of the Islamic khilafah in 1924, many Islamic scholars realised there was an urgent need to reinstall the Islamic Khilafah. Thus political thought in Islam rose to prominence among some scholars. Consequently, many Islamic political and religious movements re-emerg…
This study addresses how educated Afghan refugee women in Pakistan have experienced,contributed to and challenged the gendered constructions of national, ethnic and religious identities in war and displacement. In addition, this study addresses the lived experiences of educated …
This thesis consists of a critical edition of the first volume of Mukhtaṣar Jāmi' al-Uṣūl by Abu Ja’far al-Marwazi al-Astarabadi, made from the only known MS, preserved in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Use has also been made in the edition of the published text of the work…