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1 day ago · Islam, major world religion that emphasizes monotheism, the unity of God (‘Allah’ in Arabic), and Muhammad as his final messenger in a series of revelations. As the literal word of God, the Qur’an makes known the will of God, to which humans must surrender (lending the name Islam, meaning ‘surrender’).
- Education
Islam - Schools, Madrasas, Universities: Muslim educational...
- Shiʿism
Islam - Shi'a, Imams, Twelvers: Shiʿism is the only...
- Religion and The Arts
Islam - Art, Architecture, Calligraphy: The Arabs before...
- Critiques, Theology, Aristotle
Islam - Critiques, Theology, Aristotle: The critique of...
- Impact of Modernism
Islam - Modernism, Reforms, Beliefs: The new wisdom lived on...
- Sunnism
Islam - Sunni Beliefs, Practices, & History: In the 10th...
- The Teachings of Averroës
Islam - Averroes, Teachings, Philosophy: To Ibn Ṭufayl’s...
- The Teachings of al-Fārābī
Islam - Philosophy, Theology, Law: The first philosopher to...
- Education
2 days ago · He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Luiss University of Rome, and a Research Fellow affiliate to Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. His research areas are modern intellectual history of the Arab-Islamic world, Islamic thought in Europe, contemporary Moroccan thought, and religion and politics in the Arab world.
2 days ago · Islam - Beliefs, Practices, History: Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafah) are two traditions of learning developed by Muslim thinkers who were engaged, on the one hand, in the rational clarification and defense of the principles of the Islamic religion (mutakallimūn) and, on the other, in the pursuit of the ancient (Greek and Hellenistic, or Greco-Roman) sciences (falāsifah). These thinkers took a position that was intermediate between the traditionalists, who remained ...
3 days ago · Islam - Modernism, Reforms, Beliefs: The new wisdom lived on during the 18th and 19th centuries, conserving much of its vitality and strength but not cultivating new ground. It attracted able thinkers such as Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi and Hādī Sabzevārī and became a regular part of the program of higher education in the cultural centres of the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and the Indian subcontinent, a status never achieved by the earlier tradition of Islamic philosophy. In collaboration with ...
2 days ago · Significant examples from the medieval Islamic world include the synthesis of ammonium chloride from organic substances as described in the works attributed to Jābir, [104] and Abū Bakr al-Rāzī's experiments with vitriol, which would eventually lead to the discovery of mineral acids like sulfuric acid and nitric acid by thirteenth century Latin alchemists such as pseudo-Geber.
1 day ago · Sunni Islam [a] (/ ˈ s uː n i /; Arabic: أهل السنة, romanized: Ahl as-Sunnah, lit. 'The People of the Sunnah') is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world. Its name comes from the word Sunnah, referring to the tradition of Muhammad.
1 day ago · Erpenius aimed to show the study of Islamic and Asian manuscripts was as important as that of Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Hebrew. More than 15 languages and scripts feature in the exhibition ...
