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1 day ago · Robert Wisnovsky, a scholar of Avicenna attached to McGill University, says that "Avicenna was the central figure in the long history of the rational sciences in Islam, particularly in the fields of metaphysics, logic and medicine" but that his works didn't only have an influence in these "secular" fields of knowledge alone, as "these works, or portions of them, were read, taught, copied, commented upon, quoted, paraphrased and cited by thousands of post-Avicennian scholars—not only ...
7 hours ago · Despite the fact that some scholars nowadays comment on the rise of processes of homogenisation under the influence of Turkey on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia on the other, Muslim leaders speak about the distinction people should make between the different fractions in Islam or even within the ranks of moderate Muslims.
7 hours ago · Although most Muslim scholars believed that Elijah preached in Israel, some early commentators on the Quran stated that Elijah was sent to Baalbek, in Lebanon. [159] Modern scholars have rejected this claim, stating that the connection of the city with Elijah would have been made because of the first half of the city's name, that of Baal , which was the deity that Elijah exhorted his people to stop worshiping.
7 hours ago · Professor of history at Dickinson College, David Commins also states that early disputes with other Muslims did not center on fiqh, and that the belief that the distinctive character of Wahhabism stems from Hanbali legal thought is a "myth". [212] Some scholars are ambivalent as to whether Wahhabis belong to the Hanbali legal school.
7 hours ago · Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the thirteenth century, quotes Umar as saying to Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī (John Philoponus): "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them." So, Ibn al Qifti recounts, the general ordered that the books be burned to fuel the fires that heated Alexandria’s city baths.
1 day ago · The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb is known to have patronised works of Islamic calligraphy; [151] the demand for Quran manuscripts in the naskh style peaked during his reign. Having been instructed by Syed Ali Tabrizi, Aurangzeb was himself a talented calligrapher in naskh, evidenced by Quran manuscripts that he created. [152] [153]
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1 day ago · Seclusion of women was established in various communities of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and Persia before the advent of Islam, [7] and some scholars believe that Muslims adopted the custom from the Byzantine Empire and Persia, retrospectively interpreting the Quran to justify it. [49]
