in extant islamic manuscripts we can find some observation reports of a black dot on the surface of the sun. these reports add that this dot should be the planet venus or mercury, transiting over the sun, showing that both of them are below the sphere of the sun. the research made so far on ibn sina’s report shows that it might relate to a really observed venus transit. quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī (...

Durant notre séminaire de l’année 2020-2021, nous avons entrepris l’étude des commentaires coraniques d’Avicenne. Quelques du Coran lui sont attribués dans sa bibliographie : le commentaire la sourate 112, « al-Iḫlāṣ » (le Culte pur) ; celui 113 al-Falaq (de l’Aube) 114 al-Nās (Les hommes) ainsi qu’un verset 11 41, Ṯumma stawā ilā-samā’ (« Puis Il se tourna vers ciel »). Pour ce qui est à al-A‘...

Having been an ʿAbbāsid Caliph in such a period when the Caliphate office lost its political authority and symbolically serviced as religious power, al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh desired to reset of Islamic world. For doing so he did notable military, political, intellectual social reforms. One reforms that dates back earlier times was improve concept position idea futuwwa under his authority. Term “fu...

The article reviews the existance of Shi’ite ḥadīth narrator with various levels, in which their report narrated Sunni authoritative literature namely Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. It attempts to examine chain transmission (sanad) al-Bukhārī classical and contemporary rijāl al-ḥadīth books, such as Ibn Abī Ḥātim (d. 327), Ḥibbān 354), Yūsuf al-Mizzī 742), al-Dhahabī 748), Ḥajar 852), al-Suyūṭī 911), Muḥamm...

Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1027) is regarded as the most influential philosopher in Islamic intellectual history. Of his numerous contributions, none has garnered more attention than ontological proof for existence of God, known ‘the Demonstration Truthful’ (Burhān al-ṣiddiqīn). In this proof, Ibn argues that only one being can be ‘necessarily existent’ (wājib al-wujūd). He goes on to say all at...

The period between the publication of Asrār-i Khūdī (Secrets Self) in 1915 and Reconstruction Religious Thought Islam 1930 marked consolidation philosophy khūdī (self) from perspective Indian philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. A philosophical project for contemporary Islamic world that sought to overcome, acceptance science few elements Western philosophy, limitations tradition and, above all, Sufism,...