Risāla al-šarafiyya fī taqāsīm al-‘olūm al-yaqīniyya-yi Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan Salmāsī. Anjoman-e āṯār va mafāḫer-e farhangī, 1384/2004, 200 p., index.

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...

Cylindri al Surfa e Pasting

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...

Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca: the Risāla fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj

dust jacket accurately summarizes the main argument of the book: Gibbon was a "stubborn, persevering, single-minded genius, whose determination ... resulted in the one thing essential for sustained progress in heart surgery". Romaine-Davis' chronological account, beginning with Gibbon's birth and early years, culminates in the first successful use of his pump oxygenator on a human patient in 19...

Empirical Horizons in Islamic Historiography: Abū Rayḥān Al-Birunī

From the main features of the tradition of Islamic historiography is variety of its forms, types, methods, topics and schools. However, today, Islamic historiography is known by its mere narrative methods and schools, which are only part of this widespread tradition. In other words, the narrative aspect of Islamic historiography have overshadowed its other aspects. Therefore, researchers in thi...