Since the recent publication of Shurunbulali’s Ascent to Felicity (translated by Shaykh Faraz Khan), a number of people have been requesting the original Arabic text. In my knowledge, the attached copy is the only published version of the book and has been out of print for some time. I am not personally aware of anyContinueContinue reading “Maraqi al-Sa’adat (Original Arabic for Ascent to Felicity)”
Author Archives: Bilal Ali Ansari
Book Review: The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read, and Remember
by Robert Colvile Published: 5:25PM BST 27 Aug 2010 by http://www.telegraph.co.uk The Shallows by Nicholas Carr: Review Think about what you did last week. You might remember the nice meal, the chat to the cousin, the blazing row. But odds are, you spent the most time doing the same thing as the rest of us:ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read, and Remember”
Malik’s Concept of ‘Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
One a number of occasions, some acquaintances and students have requested a copy of Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah’s thorough UofC PhD thesis on the concept of inherited practice (‘amal) in the light of Maliki legal theory (usul). Because I was once told that the work had been published, I withheld posting a pdf of theContinueContinue reading “Malik’s Concept of ‘Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah”
Review: The Essentials of Jumu’a by Shaykh Ibrahim Madani
Reviewed by Bilal Ali Author: Ibrahim Madani Publisher: Madania Publications Pages: 89 Binding: Paperback The Essentials of Jumuʿa, Madania Publications’ first work, is a pleasant and welcome addition to a growing corpus of Islamic literature written in English and aimed at the Western reader. At first glance, the reader will appreciate the excellence of its printContinueContinue reading “Review: The Essentials of Jumu’a by Shaykh Ibrahim Madani”
al-Kawashif al-Jaliyyah ‘an Mustalahat al-Hanafiyyah by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah al-Mulla
The following treatise is a wonderfully brief but expansive work on the terminology of the Hanafi school of law. It began as an introduction to Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah’s (amongst the scholars of Ahsa’) doctorate on the first volume of ‘Allamah Siraj al-Din Ibn al-Nujaym’s al-Nahr al-Fa’iq and was later expanded upon to include more termsContinueContinue reading “al-Kawashif al-Jaliyyah ‘an Mustalahat al-Hanafiyyah by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah al-Mulla”
Farqiyyat of Imam ‘Abd al-Haqq al-Muhaddith al-Dihlawi
I must confess that due to a number of preoccupations we have not been able to post anything in a while. That said, I would like to put the readers of this blog at ease and assure them that regular posting should soon resume, in sha Allah. In order to facilitate the uploading process, notContinueContinue reading “Farqiyyat of Imam ‘Abd al-Haqq al-Muhaddith al-Dihlawi”
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