Abstract In this article I trace the contours of notion taḥqīq in Ṭūr-i maʿrifat “The Sinai Knowledge,” a late seventeenth-century poetic exploration natural phenomena by most important Indo-Persian poet-philosopher Mughal times, Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil (ʿAẓīmābād, 1644 – Delhi, 1720). collect and analyze all textual loci where term occurs Bīdil’s mathnawī , showing how “verification/realizat...

This article offers a translation and discussion of chapter relatively little known late third/ninth- or early fourth/tenth-century text that contains transcription the inscriptions could be seen around Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after renovation work undertaken there on orders third Abbasid caliph, Muḥammad al-Mahdī. thus adds significantly to our corpus from imperial monuments. The discusses ...

Within the context of Islamic discourse about evolution, this is first study that focuses exclusively on views Kamāl al-Ḥaydarī (b. 1957), a prominent Shīʿī thinker contemporary period. Ḥaydarī develops his from Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1904–1981), author seminal exegesis The Balance in Interpreting Qurʾān (Al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān). Ṭabāṭabāʾī very hesitant accepting whether can be r...

Does Q. 2:178 legislate retaliation for murder? Was Abraham commanded to chop up some birds according 2:260? This paper examines two cases in which a dominant view Muslim exegesis has existed alongside an alternative that is minimised or criticised, while arguably being closer fit the text and context of verse. The first, ‘historicist’ reading qiṣāṣ verse (Q. 2:178), was picked advocated by inf...