On the evening of Saturday, 5 Shawwāl 919 (4 December 1513), Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl, a Cairene Hanafi deputy qadi, left home for a night vigil at the Qarāfah cemetery in Cairo. 1 His wife, expecting her husband to be absent for the entire night, sent for her lover, a certain Nūr al-Dīn al-Mashālī, himself a Shafiʿi deputy judge. Unfortunately for the two, a neighbor gave notice to the husband, who...

Dinî referanslarla bazı Müslümanların küfrüne hükmetmeyi ifade eden tekfir söylemi, Hz. Peygamber sonrası dönemlerde yaşanan siyasî kargaşalarda ortaya çıkmış ve asırlar boyunca bir ötekileştirme, İslam dışına itme bazen de şiddete başvurma aracı olarak kullanılır hale gelmiştir. Sıffîn savaşında hakem olayı sebebiyle Ali’nin ordusu içerisinden çıkan Hâricîlerin, temelsiz iddialarla başta Ali M...

the first part of the paper describes the persian translation of naṣīr al-dīn al-ṭūsī’s taḥrīr kitāb uqlīdis by quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. as evidence of the work’s influence, al-shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century prin...

Résumé Ṭāhar Bāšā Ḫayr al-Dīn, né à Istanbul, officier ottoman, occupe le poste de ministre la justice province Tunis alors sous protectorat français 1921 1934. Il a laissé un témoignage historique précieux : des mémoires, compilés forme notes par universitaires tunisiens et publiés dans leur langue originale, en arabe, 1989. Cet article propose une traduction quelques extraits l’analyse d’une ...

In the following article, two copper coins of Artuqid ruler Fakhr al-Dīn Qarā Arslān are presented and discussed. These widely known, but described interpreted differently. It will be demonstrated how, through superficial observation careless description coins, errors can found even in standard literature. Such errors, as here, lead to interpretations that largely erroneous.

Translation of culture-bound terms is of special importance in translation theory and practice. The present study is an attempt to examine the procedures used in translating these terms in the English translations of the Holy Qur’an.  As  such,  English  equivalents  of  terms  related  to Practical laws of religion (Furū al-Dīn) in five English versions of the Qur'an are identified and the  tr...