By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الأسماء والصفات للبيهقي-التقوى Vols: 2 Author: أبي بكر أحمد البيهقي Publisher: التقوى-دمشق Cover & Pages: Hard-1644pg Around the 5th century hijri, a number of works had been authored in aqidah and sifat, that were unfortunately either inclined to ta’til and denial of the sifat of Allah Ta’ala or tashbih ofContinue reading "Book Spotlight: al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt by Imam al-Bayhaqī"
Book Review: What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa
Book Review –What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 290. Reviewed by Dr. Ashraf Dockrat Ebrahim Moosa, a leading theoretician behind critical/progressive Muslim thought and a graduate of the ‘alimiyya program at Dar ul-Ulum, Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, in the early 1980s, has gifted us with a much needed, personal account andContinue reading "Book Review: What is a Madrasa by Ebrahim Moosa"
Seven Commitments in Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranpūrī’s Badhl al-Majhūd
There is a quote attributed to Mawlānā Muḥammad ʿĀshiq Ilāhī al-Mīrathī, one of the close associates of Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Muhājir al-Madanī, the author of the monumental Sunan Abī Dāwūd commentary Badhl al-Majhūd, in the Tadhkirat al-Khalīl, p. 278 (which my mentor, Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Chishtī Ṣāḥib had helped to edit and arrange) that struckContinue reading "Seven Commitments in Mawlānā Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranpūrī’s Badhl al-Majhūd"
A Brief Comparison of Two Editions of Iḥyā ʿUlūm al-Dīn and a Brief Look at the New Edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqīn
A brief comparison of the two editions by Dār al-Minhāj (Jeddah) and a brief look at the new edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqῑn bi Sharḥi Iḥyā̕ ῾Ulūm al-Dῑn by Dār al-Nūr al-Mubīn (Amman) by Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islamإحياء علوم الدينالمقارنة بين طبعتي دار االمنهاج (جدّة) في 4 مجلدات و 10 مجلدات تأليف: حجّة الإسلامContinue reading "A Brief Comparison of Two Editions of Iḥyā ʿUlūm al-Dīn and a Brief Look at the New Edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqīn"
Essential Reading for Seminary Students: al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah by Ḥakīm al-Ummah Ashraf ʿAlī al-Thānawī
On Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī's al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah ʿan al-Ishtibāhāt al-Jadīdah and the new Arabic translation by Muḥammad Qasīm Manṣūr By Guest Author If you are a student of the Dars Niẓāmī, you have spent years picking up some serious intellectual tools: manṭiq, kalām, uṣūl al-fiqh, ʿulūm al-ḥadīth. You have worked through dense texts and learned to thinkContinue reading "Essential Reading for Seminary Students: al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah by Ḥakīm al-Ummah Ashraf ʿAlī al-Thānawī"
Book Spotlight: Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh by Ibn al-Athīr
By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: الكامل في التاري -ابن كثير Vols: 19 Author: ابن الأثير Publisher: ابن كثير-دمشق Cover & Pages: Hard-10352pg The 3 major works in tarikh are Tarikh at-Tabari, al-Kamil and al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah. Tabari’s is the foundation, covering from the start of creation to around 300 ah. Ibn Athir in al-Kamil andContinue reading "Book Spotlight: Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh by Ibn al-Athīr"
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