Al-Islām wa al-Malāyū wa al-siyādah fī al-muḥīṭ: Sulṭanat Brunei wa al-isti‘mār Eropa fī Borneo

The Methodology of Al-Kashf wa al-Bayān fī Tafsīr al-Qur’ān

Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

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...

Ibn al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: a critical edition of Zād al-Musāfir wa qūt al-ḥāḍir

and medical interpretations of yellow fever. A commentary by Billy G Smith, a shrewd statistical re-creation of the epidemic by Susan E Klepp, and a discussion of the historiography of yellow fever by Margaret Humphreys round out this volume. To evaluate an edited volume always provides difficulties, given the variation of the individual contributions. Estes's chapter is valuable because it ske...

Ibn al-Jazzār on fevers: a critical edition of Zād al musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir, Book 7

Ibn al-Jazzar on fevers: a critical edition of Zdd al-musafir wa-qut al-4.Vjr. Provisions for the traveller and nourishment for the sedentary, Book 7, Chapters 1-6, The original Arabic text with an English translation, introduction and commentary With this volume Gerrit Bos presents a critical edition and English translation of the last section of Ibn al-Jazzar's Zad al-musafir which will be we...

MIFTAH AL-TIBB WA-MINHAJ AL-TULLAB THE KEY TO THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE AND THE STUDENTS GUIDE TO STUDY