'Abd-Allāh Ben Yāsīn Al-Gazūlī

abd- al sami’ yazdi & al-orwat al-wothqa poems

abd- al sami’ ibn-mohammad-ali- yazdi is one of the lettered, jurists & poets of 13th century (a.h) that has done valuable services to the arabic language and literature like so many other iranian. so far, there are only a few biographical books in which he has been mentioned or introduced. unfortunately he has been forgotten during the passage of time. most of his writings are in arabic and th...

Mostafa Abd El Meguid

Imam Ali’s (PBUH) place and the effects of his hadiths in writings of Kamal al-Din Abd al-Razzaq

Imam Ali (PBUH) has a great place in Sufi ideology. The reflection of Imam’s words in their works is a manifestation of this high status. One of the great Sufis is Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq Kashani (b. 650-660- d. 736 AH) is the inheritor of the Suhrawardiyah way and Ibn-Arabichr('39')s thoughts, whose special devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUT), especially Imam Ali, is reflected in his writings. Thi...

THE MU‘TAZILITE QĀDĪ ‘ABD AL-JABBĀR ON THE DENOTATION OF MIRACLES

This article examines the Mu‘tazilite Qādī ‘Abd al-Jabbār’s views on the denotation of miracles according to his own particular methodology. Despite his acceptance of the celebrated method of the theologians in the denotation of miracles with respect to the authenticity of prophets, i.e., resorting to divine wisdom, Qādī ‘Abd al-Jabbār instead proposed the issue within the structure of conven...

Ben Scheres

that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...