Al-Amali, the Dictations of Shaykh Al-Mufid
Al-Amali, the Dictations of Shaykh Al-Mufid

Author: Shaykh Al-Mufid

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781519205186

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This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Ahlulbayt Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Ahlulbayt Organization (www.shia.es) is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought! In addition, For a complete list of our published books please refer to our website (www.shia.es) or send us an email to [email protected]

Bad' Al-Amali (Islamic Creed): English Translation of a Classical Text on Sunni Creed
Bad' Al-Amali (Islamic Creed): English Translation of a Classical Text on Sunni Creed

Author: Imam Ali Ibn Uthman Al-Ushi

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-01-18

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781794334304

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Every Muslim should learn the fundamentals of faith [áqidah], which is also termed as obligatory knowledge. There are many short and lengthy works on this subject and this poem on Sunni creed [qasidah] is well-known and used to be a component of elementary education in the past. This qasidah is written by Imam Áli al-Ushi, a Hanafi scholar who lived in the 6th century of the Islamic calendar. He was born or lived in Uush, by the Farghana valley (Osh in today's Kyrgyzstan) and hence his demonym al-Ushi.The present translation of Bad' al-Amali is intended to be a beginner's guide and a handy reference of the Creed of Ahl al-Sunnah.

Essence of Life
Essence of Life

Author: Allamah Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-01-24

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781507713877

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Ain al-Hayat

O Believers
O Believers

Author: Jameel Kermalli

Publisher: Jameel Kermalli

Published:

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13:

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The Religion Islam emphasizes all Muslims, men and women, to try to understand the verses of al-Qur’an, in as much detail. There are 89 verses in al-Qur’an that have O Believers or begin with this remark, and this course will take you through each verse, its revelation and its understanding. Moreover, students will learn exactly why Allah (Most High, Most Sublime) revealed such verses and what He wants from us. After all, the address is to all believers, and not Muslims – those who have brought with them belief, not only Islam

Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)
Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)

Author: Gülru Necipoğlu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-08-12

Total Pages: 1532

ISBN-13: 9004402500

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The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.

Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism
Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism

Author: Said Amir Arjomand

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780887066382

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Preface Contributors 1 Introduction: Shi’ism, Authority, and Political Culture Said Amir Arjomand Part I Essays 2 Imam and Community in the Pre-Ghayba Period Etan Kohlberg 3 The Evolution of Popular Eulogy of the Imams among the Shi’a Mohammad-Dja’far Mahdjoub and John R. Perry 4 The Mujtahid of the Age and the Mulla-bashi: An Intermediate Stage in the Institutionalization of Religious Authority in Shi’ite Iran Said Amir Arjomand 5 In Between the Madrasa and the Marketplace: The Designation of Clerical Leadership in Modern Shi’ism Abbas Amanat 6 Constitutionalism and Clerical Authority Abdol Karim Lahidji 7 Shari’at Sangalaji: A Reformist Theologian of the Rida Shah Period Yann Richard and Kathryn Arjomand 8 Ideological Revolution in Shi’ism Said Amir Arjomand Part II Selected Sources 9 An Annotated Bibliography on Government and Statecraft Mohammad-Taqi Danishpazhouh and Andrew Newman 10 ‘Allama al-Hilli on the Imamate and Ijtihad John Cooper 11 Two Decrees of Shah Tahmasp Concerning Statecraft and the Authority of Shaykh ‘All al-Karaki Said Amir Arjomand 12 The Muqaddas al-Ardabili on Taqlid John Cooper 13 Two Seventeenth-Century Persian Tracts on Kingship and Rulers William C. Chittick 14 Lives of Prominent Nineteenth-Century ‘Ulama’ from Tunika-buni’s Qisas al-’Ulama’ Hamid Dabashi 15 An Exchange between a Mujtahid and a Qajar Official Hamid Dabashi 16 Two Clerical Tracts on Constitutionalism Hamid Dabashi 17 Clerical Authority in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Index

Lotus Gatherers
Lotus Gatherers

Author: Amali Rodrigo

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781780372877

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Amali Rodrigo's first collection is marked by a sense of being on a threshold between worlds. In South and East Asian religious symbolism, the lotus flower embodies the promise of purity and transcendence because it rises clear out of the muddy mire of its origins. It represents both abstract realms and the concrete phenomenal world. The lotus root is also an aphrodisiac. Whether the occasion of these poems are relationships, customs and superstition, war and its aftermath, the fabular or simply a piece of driftwood, they question scale, geographical and emotional distances, and our habitual gaze. At the heart of the collection are her multi-voiced Aftersongs exploring the nature of the male gaze, religious didacticism and artistic inspiration. This epigrammatic sequence is based on the ekphrastic graffiti-poems inscribed between the 8th and 10th centuries at a royal pleasure palace and fortress in Sri Lanka, addressing the frescoes of the beautiful 'cloud maidens'.

Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism
Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism

Author: Israel Gershoni

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0292757476

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The first book to present an analysis of Arab response to fascism and Nazism from the perspectives of both individual countries and the Arab world at large, this collection problematizes and ultimately deconstructs the established narratives that assume most Arabs supported fascism and Nazism leading up to and during World War II. Using new source materials taken largely from Arab memoirs, archives, and print media, the articles reexamine Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iraqi responses in the 1930s and throughout the war. While acknowledging the individuals, forces, and organizations that did support and collaborate with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism focuses on the many other Arab voices that identified with Britain and France and with the Allied cause during the war. The authors argue that many groups within Arab societies—elites and non-elites, governing forces, and civilians—rejected Nazism and fascism as totalitarian, racist, and, most important, as new, more oppressive forms of European imperialism. The essays in this volume argue that, in contrast to prevailing beliefs that Arabs were de facto supporters of Italy and Germany—since “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”—mainstream Arab forces and currents opposed the Axis powers and supported the Allies during the war. They played a significant role in the battles for control over the Middle East.

The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds
The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds

Author: Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0761855734

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The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Universe is an authoritative book and a guideline on practical Sufism ('irfan-i 'amali). It is also a mirror to the soul of its author. In this book Ghazzali speaks not only as a scholar but also as a master and sincerely shares his spiritual experiences with his readers in a simple language and an intimate tone. These qualities of the book penetrate into the depth of the heart of the reader. The importance of the book lies in the fact that its author was the most prominent theologian and jurist of his time and its teachings are as valid today as they were when the author wrote the book just before his death in 505/1111.