Author: Tarif Khalidi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674011155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and reverence for Jesus that has characterized Islamic thought for more than a thousand years. An invaluable resource for the history of religions, the collection documents how one culture, that of Islam, assimilated the towering religious figure of another, that of Christianity. As such, it is a work of great significance for the understanding of both, and of profound implications for modern-day intersectarian relations and ecumenical dialogue. Tarif Khalidi’s introduction and commentaries place the sayings and stories in their historical context, showing how and why this “gospel” arose and the function it served within Muslim devotion. The Jesus that emerges here is a compelling figure of deep and life-giving spirituality. The sayings and stories, some 300 in number and arranged in chronological order, show us how the image of this Jesus evolved throughout a millennium of Islamic history.
The Muslim Jesus
Author: Tarif Khalidi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674011155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and reverence for Jesus that has characterized Islamic thought for more than a thousand years. An invaluable resource for the history of religions, the collection documents how one culture, that of Islam, assimilated the towering religious figure of another, that of Christianity. As such, it is a work of great significance for the understanding of both, and of profound implications for modern-day intersectarian relations and ecumenical dialogue. Tarif Khalidi’s introduction and commentaries place the sayings and stories in their historical context, showing how and why this “gospel” arose and the function it served within Muslim devotion. The Jesus that emerges here is a compelling figure of deep and life-giving spirituality. The sayings and stories, some 300 in number and arranged in chronological order, show us how the image of this Jesus evolved throughout a millennium of Islamic history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674011155
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This work presents in English translation the largest collection ever assembled of the sayings and stories of Jesus in Arabic Islamic literature. In doing so, it traces a tradition of love and reverence for Jesus that has characterized Islamic thought for more than a thousand years. An invaluable resource for the history of religions, the collection documents how one culture, that of Islam, assimilated the towering religious figure of another, that of Christianity. As such, it is a work of great significance for the understanding of both, and of profound implications for modern-day intersectarian relations and ecumenical dialogue. Tarif Khalidi’s introduction and commentaries place the sayings and stories in their historical context, showing how and why this “gospel” arose and the function it served within Muslim devotion. The Jesus that emerges here is a compelling figure of deep and life-giving spirituality. The sayings and stories, some 300 in number and arranged in chronological order, show us how the image of this Jesus evolved throughout a millennium of Islamic history.
No Truth Without Beauty
Author: Leena El-Ali
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030835820
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what’s with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the seventeen topics in this book, and you will quickly learn a) where the myth came from and b) how to bust it. The methodology pursued is simple. First, the Qur’an is given priority over all other literary or “scriptural” sources. Second, the meaning of its verses in the original Arabic is highlighted, in contrast to English translations and/or widespread misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030835820
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what’s with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the seventeen topics in this book, and you will quickly learn a) where the myth came from and b) how to bust it. The methodology pursued is simple. First, the Qur’an is given priority over all other literary or “scriptural” sources. Second, the meaning of its verses in the original Arabic is highlighted, in contrast to English translations and/or widespread misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
Discovering Islam
Author: Sayyid Moustafa Al-Qazwini
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985572522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
An introductory text on the fundamentals and spirit of Islam from a Shi'a perspective describing the basic principles as well as the common practices. This text is especially beneficial to those who are new to Islam, or are considering becoming Muslim.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985572522
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
An introductory text on the fundamentals and spirit of Islam from a Shi'a perspective describing the basic principles as well as the common practices. This text is especially beneficial to those who are new to Islam, or are considering becoming Muslim.
Ibn Khaldûn's Philosophy of History
Author: Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317366344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. In no other field has the revolt of modern Western thought against traditional philosophy been so far-reaching in its consequences as in the field of history. Ibn Khaldun realized that history is more immediately related to action than political philosophy because it studies the actual state of man and society. He found that the ancients had not made history the object of an independent science, and thought it was important to fill this gap. A factual acquaintance with the conclusions of Ibn Khaldun’s reflections on history is not the same as the full comprehension of their theoretical significance. When these fundamental questions are answered, it becomes possible to pose the specific question of the relation of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history, or his new science of culture, to other practical sciences and, particularly, to the art of history. After an exposition of the major trends of Islamic historiography, part of this book attempts to answer this question through the analysis of the method and intention of the sections of the ‘History’ where Ibn Khaldun himself examines the works of major Muslim historians, shows the necessity of the new science of culture, and distinguishes it from other practical sciences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317366344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. In no other field has the revolt of modern Western thought against traditional philosophy been so far-reaching in its consequences as in the field of history. Ibn Khaldun realized that history is more immediately related to action than political philosophy because it studies the actual state of man and society. He found that the ancients had not made history the object of an independent science, and thought it was important to fill this gap. A factual acquaintance with the conclusions of Ibn Khaldun’s reflections on history is not the same as the full comprehension of their theoretical significance. When these fundamental questions are answered, it becomes possible to pose the specific question of the relation of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history, or his new science of culture, to other practical sciences and, particularly, to the art of history. After an exposition of the major trends of Islamic historiography, part of this book attempts to answer this question through the analysis of the method and intention of the sections of the ‘History’ where Ibn Khaldun himself examines the works of major Muslim historians, shows the necessity of the new science of culture, and distinguishes it from other practical sciences.
Islamic Legal Thought
Author: David Powers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004255885
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, twenty-three scholars each contribute a chapter containing the biography of a distinguished Muslim jurist and a translated sample of his work. Jurists of the formative, classical and modern periods are represented.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004255885
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, twenty-three scholars each contribute a chapter containing the biography of a distinguished Muslim jurist and a translated sample of his work. Jurists of the formative, classical and modern periods are represented.
The Holy Quran: English Translation of the Meanings
Author: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781367385177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Quran is among the most influential books in the history of literature, and is a source of Islam. This translation by Sir Yusuf Ali is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781367385177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Quran is among the most influential books in the history of literature, and is a source of Islam. This translation by Sir Yusuf Ali is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world.
The Global Messenger
Author: Umm Muhammad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9787927541403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9787927541403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
God or No God
Author: Haya Muhammad Eid
Publisher: Haya Muhammad Eid
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
It was narrated that a Bedouin was traveling on his camel when his camel suddenly dropped dead. He descended from the camel’s back and started circling it while meditatively saying: Why don’t you get up? Why don’t you come back to life? Here are your limbs! They are perfectly complete and your body is sound! What is the matter with you? What used to keep you going? What worked in you to make you alive? What caused you to die? What stopped you now from moving? Then he left his camel in amazement, wondering what had happened to it. There are traces of past and present creations everywhere — are they meaningless or living signs of a Creator God?
Publisher: Haya Muhammad Eid
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
It was narrated that a Bedouin was traveling on his camel when his camel suddenly dropped dead. He descended from the camel’s back and started circling it while meditatively saying: Why don’t you get up? Why don’t you come back to life? Here are your limbs! They are perfectly complete and your body is sound! What is the matter with you? What used to keep you going? What worked in you to make you alive? What caused you to die? What stopped you now from moving? Then he left his camel in amazement, wondering what had happened to it. There are traces of past and present creations everywhere — are they meaningless or living signs of a Creator God?
Western Influence in Iqbal
Author: Tara Charan Rastogi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Influence of European philosophical and literary traditions in the works of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, Urdu and Persian poet.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Influence of European philosophical and literary traditions in the works of Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, Urdu and Persian poet.
World Religions
Author: Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816012893
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Looks at the history and beliefs of ancient and modern religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816012893
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Looks at the history and beliefs of ancient and modern religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam