Academic Article -- Download the Article in PDF format (212 KB) Keywords Ismaili, Greek Philosophy, Creation, al-Sijistani, AmrThe earliest Ismaili thinkers were, like nearly all Muslim theologians and philosophers, confronted unavoidably with the problem of explaining how God created the universe. Apparently less concerned with public opinion and possible censure, they wrote freely although unorthodoxly on the subject. Most often they followed ...
Academic Article -- Download the PDF version of this article Table of Contents:The Problem Of TimeThe Ismaili Definition of Time and EternityThe Womb of History The Problem Of Time One of the more serious and threatening, yet unsolved, problems in theology is uncertainty about the meaning of time. Clearly, the theologian of an omnipotent and absolute God must reconcile His transcendence with ...
Academic Article -- Key words:Knowledge, Epistemology, Religious philosophy (kalam), Islamic Hellenistic philosophy (falsafa), Mu'tazilis, Ash'aris, Neoplatonism, Mystical philosophy, Illuminationist philosophy, Metaphysics, Cosmology, ethics, Political Philosophy, Emanation, Active Intellect, Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astrology, Optics, Medicine, Mathematics, Observatory, Hospital, Translation, Dar al-'Ilm, Fatimids.Download PDF version of article (156 KB)Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Search for KnowledgePhilosophy Religious philosophyIslamic Hellenistic philosophyAl-KindiAl-FarabiAl-RaziIbn SinaAndalusian Islamic Hellenistic philosophersMystical philosophyThe Sciences ...
Academic Article -- Keywords Nationalism, Iran, Persia, Khurasan, Transoxania, Abbasid, Zoroastrian, Kharijis, Khurammis, Ismailis, Imamiyya, Khidash Download PDF version of article (250 KB) Table of contentsThe Kharijite movementCurrents of Shi'ism: the Kaysaniyya and the HashimiyyaHeterodox Muslim and neo-Mazdakite movements: al-Muqanna', Babak, and othersThe later development of Shi'ism: the Twelvers, the Zaydis and the IsmailisThe beginnings of the disinitgration of the 'Abbasid caliphate ...
Academic Article -- KeywordsSayyida Hurra, Sulayhid, Yemen, Fatimid, education of women, Sitt al-Mulk, Adris 'Imad al-Din, Uyun al-akhbar, Sulayman, Sulayhi, al-AfdalDownload PDF version of article (341 KB)Table of contentsIntroduction Education PoliciesWomen in the Fatimid Dynasty Sulayhid dynasty - early accounts YemenSulayman b. 'Abd Allah al-ZawahiAsma bint ShihabAl-Sayyida al-HurraThe re-establishment of the Ismaili da'waHurra's ascension in the Fatimid da'waResponsibilitiesNizari-Musta'li schismAl-AfdalCollapse of the Fatimid ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (158 KB) Key wordsIsmaili, Shi'a, taqiyya, Imamah, Imam 'Ali, Caliphate, Fatimid, Abbasid, Ahl al-Bayt, da'wa, shari'a, dawr al-satr,Alamut, Nizari, Musta'li, Zaydi,tawhid,ta'wil,hadith, batin,zahir, haqa'iq, 'ilm, al-Azhar,wazier,al-Qahira,mahdi,Ifriqiya,da'i, Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, Pir, Nasir-i Khusraw, ginan, Safavid, Aga Khan, nur, qiyamah, ta'lim, 'ulama.Table of ContentsIntroductory RemarksThe Formative Period of IsmailismThe Period of Fatimid RuleAspects of Fatimid Ismaili DoctrineThe ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF version of the article (113 KB)Key words Education, Islamic education, textbooks on Islam, teaching religions, SACRE, education and pluralism Table of ContentsIntroduction Realising RE's Potential: The Case of the Teaching of Islam Monolithic versus Pluralist Presentation Literalist versus Symbolic Understandings Historic/humanist versus Absolutist ApproachPoliticisation of RE Content RE's Emphasis on Pedagogy and Diversity Conclusion Introduction Think of ...
Academic Article -- Key Words: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), mediation, mediator, facilitation, family, divorce, Izzat, guru, domestic abuse, code of practice, controlled emotional involvement, psychico-social transiton, enunciator, arbiturator, humanising, understanding, listening, impartial, cultural sensivity.Download PDF version of article (78 KB) Table of contentsIntroductionMediation and MediatorsA Mediator's 'Terms of Reference'Mediation Today Introduction1 Mediation is at an important crossroads and like human beings, who, ...
Academic Article -- Key WordsHadith, Imam Ali, al-Nawawi, 'Abd al-Rahman Jalal al-Din al-SuyutiThe first paragraph of the article is reproduced below: There are a great many short hadith (traditions attributed to Prophet Muhammad) collections comprising forty ahadith (pl. of hadith). The most famous is the Forty Ahadith of Muhyi al-Din Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Sharaf al-Nawawi (d. 631/1233). The al-Nawawi collection, actually ...
Academic Article -- Download the article in PDF Table of Contents:The HistoriansPortrayal of the FatimidsTeleological view of historyKhaldunian approach to historyAl-Mu'izz: through the lens of the Itti'az and the 'UyunConcluding Remarks The Historians Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi was an erudite Sunni polymath who dedicated much of his considerable scholarship to the study of Egypt. Born, bred and buried in Cairo, al-Maqrizi had a ...
Academic Article -- Key wordsMadrasas,hadith,sira, usul al-din (principles of the faith), akhlaq, maktabs,fiqh (jurisprudence),kalam (theology), Islamisation,ribats (monastic colleges),Dar al-Ilm,adab,ulama, tafsir. Download PDF version of article (86.3 KB) Table of contentsIntroductionThe DilemmaThe Historical CaseThe Contemporary SituationThe Educational ArgumentConclusionIntroduction In recent years, Islam as school knowledge has been increasingly perceived as a problematic category in education, in both Muslim and non-Muslim contexts.[1] Terrorist incidents ...
Academic Article -- Keywords Modernity, Islam, Historicity, Fundamentalism, Tradition, Identity, History, Religion, the Abrahamic Faiths, the universal and the particular Download PDF version of article (36 KB) Table of ContentsSome Fundamental Questions of our timesIslam: Fact and IdeaHistory vs. SystemModernity: Prospects and PredicamentsThe Need of the HourThe Power of AspirationAbrahamic Commonalities Some Fundamental Questions of our times It is now more than ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (55 KB)Key words: Ismailis, Syria, Fatimids,Shi'a, Salamiyya, da'wa,da'i, Cairo, al-Azhar, Dar al-'Ilm, Alamut, Saljuq, Crusaders, Nizari, Aleppo, Damascus, Jabal Bahra, Rashid al-Din Sinan, Kahf, Mamluks, Baybars, Mongols, Abbasid, Hospitallers, Salah al-Din, holy war. Table of Contents:A Wide-Spread Network with Shifting Power Bases The Ismailis in Medieval Syria The Ismaili Strongholds in Syria and Iran ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF In John Wansbrough's work, Qur'anic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation, several theses are put forth regarding the material known as asbab al-nuzul, 'occasions of revelation'. The overall view of Wansbrough is one which is derived (critically) from al-Suyuti,[1] which is that the asbab material has its primary reference point in works devoted to deriving law ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (32 KB)Key words:Neoplatonism, Syriac, Plotinus, Plato, Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, Aristotelian, Stoic, neo-Pythagorean, Enneads, Nous (intellect), methaphysics, Platonists, creatio ex nihilo, the World Soul, Laws, Sophist, Timaeus, history of ideas in Islam, al-Madina al-Fadila (The Virtuous City), Corpus Platonicum, Tandhib al-akhlaq (The Cultivation of Morals), Ibn Miskawayh, Liber de Causis (Kitab al-Khayr al-Mahd), al-Kindi, Ikhwan ...
Academic Article -- Key words Fatimid empire, Diversity, Governance, Imam-caliph al-Mu'izz, Imam-caliph al-Aziz, Egypt, Cairo, Egyptian Christianity,Towards a Shi'i Mediterranean Empire, Arts of the City Victorious Download full version of the article in PDF format (304KB) History The raison d'être of the Ismaili Fatimid caliphate (909-1171 CE) was the establishment of a state where all its subjects, regardless of their religious affiliations ...
Academic Article -- Keywords Fatimids, Egypt, Shi'i Studies, Ismaili Studies, Pluralism, Tolerance, Interfaith Relations, Jews, Christians, Egypt, imam-caliphs, ahl al-kitab, ahl al-dhimma, people of the book, people of the covenant of protection, al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, al-'Aziz bi'llah, Judaism, Christianity. Download PDF version of article (184 KB)Table of ContentsIntroductionBackgroundThe Ahl al-kitab during the Reign of the Imam-Caliph al-Mu'izzThe Imam-Caliph al 'Aziz and the ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF of article (124 KB)Key wordsQur'anic commentary, exegesis, binary, hermeneutical keys, Shafi'ism, Ash'arism, al-ta'wil, Nizari, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.Dr Muhammad 'Ali Azarshab's editio princeps of Shahrastani's Qur'an commentary retrieves a strange jewel of Muslim intellectual history from near oblivion. In the sections of the work which analyse Qur'anic arcana (asrar), the modern reader finds a fully elaborated system to ...
Academic Article -- Keywords Da'wa in Yemen, Da'wa in Maghrib, Fatimid caliphate, al-Mahdi Download PDF version of article (273 KB) Table of contents IntroductionThe SourcesIsmaili WritingsNon-Ismaili WritingsThe YemenThe MaghribThe Genesis of the Ismaili da'wa in the YemenThe Genesis and Dissemination of the Ismaili da'wa Activity in the MaghribAl-Madhi's Change of Proposed DestinationSome Possible Factors Influencing al-Mahdi's Change of Plan External Factors 'Abbasid ...
Academic Article -- Download PDF version of article (89 KB)Key words:Bhakti, batini, da'i 'Abd Allah, ginans, Imam-Caliph al-Mustansir bi'llah, Kalki, India, Ismailis, Ismaili Khojas, Jats, Nizari Ismailis, Nur Muhammad Shah, Pir Shams, Puranas, Rajputs, Satgur Nur, Satpanthi, Siddharaja, South Asia, Sufi, Vaishnavism.Table of Contents:An Overview of Religious Developments in Medieval South Asia Ismaili History in Northern and Western India Ginans and Other ...
