Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ash`ari’s Theological Method and Its Relevancy to Contemporary Philosophical Challenges

Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Reply to Faith et al.

Forum Contemporary Evosystem Services: A Reply to Faith et al. Seth M. Rudman,* Maayan Kreitzman, Kai M.A. Chan, and Dolph Schluter We thank Faith et al. [1] for their informative and thought-provoking reply to our recent article in TREE [2]. We agree with several of their comments regarding the path forward for the study of evosystem services and especially contemporary evosystem services, the...

A review and criticism of Wahba Zuḥaylī's method in al-Tafsīr al-Munīr fī al-‘Aqīda wa al-Sharī‘a wa al-Munhaj

The science of interpretation has a special position in the Islamic sciences and has been addressed seriously by Muslims from the very first days of Islam, because interpretation is to understand and discover the points of the best speech, i.e. the speech of the Sublime Allāh. One of the new commentaries on Muslims' divine book is al-Tafsīr al-munīr fī al-‘aqīda wa al-sharī‘a wa al-munhaj, auth...

Abul- Hasan al-Tabari: a review of his views and works.

Abul-Hasan al-Tabari was a 10th century Persian physician born in Tabaristan. He was a creative and innovative physician who avoided emulating treatments without investigating and examining them. Tabari was an encyclopedist and had a holistic view to medicine. Investigation of the views of this great Persian scholar indicated that his scientific and moral characteristics contain: paying adequat...

Response to Sadek et al. and Kotlikoff et al.

Ditte Caroline Andersen,1,2,* Charlotte Harken Jensen,1 and Søren Paludan Sheikh1,3 1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense C, Denmark 2Clinical Institute/University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark 3Institute of Molecular Medicine/University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Den...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES