Omar al-Khayyam, Algebra wa al-Muqabala: An Essay by the Uniquely Wise 'Abel Fath Omar bin al-Khayyam on Algebra and Equations

Should President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan Be Charged and Arrested by the International Criminal Court?

The recent activity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague concerning the case of President Omar al-Bashir and the crisis in Darfur has set off a firestorm of commentary amongst international lawyers, human rights activists, genocide scholars, experts on Sudan, and journalists, among others. Some argue that the ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, was correct in charging al-Bashi...

Al-Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra

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...

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...

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...