By Mufti Husain Kadodia Title: أحكام القرآن للجصاص-أسفار Vols: 9 Author: الجصاص الرازي Publisher: أسفار-الكويت Cover & Pages: Hard-6409pg While we might have studied Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh and Usul and could even be teaching Jalalayn, Hidayah, Nur al-Anwar and some of al-Kutub as-Sittah, we are generally deficient in being able to combine these fields andContinueContinue reading “Book Spotlight: Aḥkām al-Qurʾān by Imam al-Jaṣṣāṣ”
Category Archives: Qur’an
A Reading List: Great Books of Islamic Civilization
The intellectual tradition of Islamic civilization is both incredibly vast and delightfully diverse. Within this immense corpus of intellectual wealth, certain works enjoy an authority that endures time because these “great books” shaped entire disciplines, helped form curricula, or preserved modes of thought across centuries. The following list, produced by N.A. Baloch, comprises the tableContinueContinue reading “A Reading List: Great Books of Islamic Civilization”
Book Review: Dār al-Mīzān’s Publication of Taʾwīlāt al-Qurʾān
Dār al-Mīzān’s Publication of Taʾwīlāt al-Qurʾān (Tafsīr al-Māturīdī) in 19 volumesReviewed by Mawlana Kamil UddinChair, Department of Qur’anic Exegesis at Darul Qasim CollegeLibrarian, Mawlana Anwar Shah Kashmiri Library at Darul Qasim College dar_al_mizans_publication_of_tawilat_alDownload
The Study Quran Review: Gibril Fouad Haddad
[The Muslim World Book Review, 36:3, 2016, pp. 20-25] Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al., ed. The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary. New York: Harper Collins, 2015. Hardback. lix + 1988pp. Maps. ISBN: 978-0-06-112586-7. This book is the magnum opus of Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University Seyyed Hossein Nasr (b. 1933), anContinueContinue reading “The Study Quran Review: Gibril Fouad Haddad”
Arabic Reading List for Students of Knowledge by Mawlana Shahin-ur Rahman
By Shahin-ur Rahman In order to comfortably read Arabic texts without the need for diacritical marks, one must master the rules pertaining to Naḥw and Ṣarf before embarking on the reading journey. Not only is it an imperative to familiarise oneself with all the rules of grammar, but to be able to apply them intoContinueContinue reading “Arabic Reading List for Students of Knowledge by Mawlana Shahin-ur Rahman”
Muslim Legacy in ‘Ulum al-Qur’an by Thameem Ushama’
By: Thameem Ushama’ Abstract The ’Ulum al-Qur’an is a science that contributes to the proper understanding of the message of the Qur’an. Having gradually developed based on the earliest Islamic sources it serves as the primary guideline for historical, technical, linguistic, stylistic, jurisprudential, interpretative and exegetical issues in the study of the Qur’an. Hence, this article presents aContinueContinue reading “Muslim Legacy in ‘Ulum al-Qur’an by Thameem Ushama’”
