Al-bayan Fi Tafsir Al-qur an [The Prolegomena to the Quran]

Al-bayan Fi Tafsir Al-qur an [The Prolegomena to the Quran]
Author: Ayatullah Sayyid Abul Qasim Al Khui
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546713067

This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Mustafa Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conveying the message of Islam to the people of the world. Mustafa Organization is a registered Organization that operates and is sustained through collaborative efforts of volunteers in many countries around the world, and it welcomes your involvement and support. Its objectives are numerous, yet its main goal is to spread the truth about the Islamic faith in general and the Shi`a School of Thought in particular due to the latter being misrepresented, misunderstood and its tenets often assaulted by many ignorant folks, Muslims and non-Muslims. Organization's purpose is to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge through a global medium, the Internet, to locations where such resources are not commonly or easily accessible or are resented, resisted and fought!

Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation

Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation
Author: Barbara Freyer Stowasser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 1996-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199761833

Islamic ideas about women and their role in society spark considerable debate both in the Western world and in the Islamic world itself. Despite the popular attention surrounding Middle Eastern attitudes toward women, there has been little systematic study of the statements regarding women in the Qur'an. Stowasser fills the void with this study on the women of Islamic sacred history. By telling their stories in Qur'an and interpretation, she introduces Islamic doctrine and its past and present socio-economic and political applications. Stowasser establishes the link between the female figure as cultural symbol, and Islamic self-perceptions from the beginning to the present time.

Holy Quran

Holy Quran
Author: Maulana Muhammad Ali
Publisher: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore USA
Total Pages: 1505
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1934271144

The Holy Qur'an EBook version English Translation and Commentary - Detailed commentary with extensive references to standard authorities, both classical and modern - Comprehensive introduction deals with Islamic teachings and the collection and arrangement of the Holy Qur'an - Extensive Index Reviews "There is no other translation or commentary of the Holy Qur'an in the English Language to compete with Maulvi Muhammad Ali's Masterpiece." -- Al-Haj Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar, translator of the Holy Qur'an "To deny the excellence of Maulvi Muhammad Ali's translation, the influence for good it has exercised and its proselytizing utility would be to deny the existence of the light of the sun." -- Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi, leader of Orthodox Muslim opinion in India) ...has all the merits of what is desired in a translation." -- The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam, Lahore, Pakistan ..".By far the best text currently available in the English language...incontestably one of the finest interpretations of the scared scripture of Islam. I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this translation to students and others seeking to understand the essence and epitome of the Quranic message." -- Prof. T. Hargery, Director, African Studies, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville ..".an austerely faithful translation in English...based on a close study of commentaries of the Qur' an - the work of my learned name-sake Maulvi Muhammad Ali of Lahore...The translation and the notes...all demonstrate the labour of love and devoted zeal." -- Late Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar of "The Comrade" "It is certainly a work of which any scholar might legitimately be proud." -- The Quest, London

Islam and Homosexuality

Islam and Homosexuality
Author: Samar Habib
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2009-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313379017

An extensive collection of essays that examines the place of homosexuality in the contemporary and classical Muslim world. The place of sexual and gender minorities in the contemporary Islamic world is the subject of fascinating new directions in research and scholarly thought. Islam and Homosexuality gathers together 20 experts exploring these issues to provide an expansive look at the treatment of same-sex interactions in Muslim cultures today. Islam and Homosexuality offers one volume on the specific experiences of gay Muslims today and a second volume viewing the issue from a global perspective. Essays explore the lives of LGBTIQ persons in both Islamic nations and Muslim communities in non-Islamic countries. Additional writings explore the roots of homophobia in the theology of Islam, the various judgments against homosexuality in the different schools of Islamic law, and the potential scriptural basis for including LGBTIQ persons in the Muslim community. No other resource on the relationship between LGBTIQ persons and the world's largest religion covers the topic with anything approaching this work's range or depth.

Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis

Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis
Author: Brannon M. Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1136128980

Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the Bible and Jewish tradition. Exegesis of Qur'an 18:60-82 shows how Muslim exegetes engage Biblical theology through interpretation of the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and their Torah. This Muslim use of a scripture shared with Jews and Christians suggests fresh perspectives for the history of religions, Biblical studies, cultural studies, and Jewish-Arabic studies.

Perspectives on Islamic Law, Justice, and Society

Perspectives on Islamic Law, Justice, and Society
Author: Ravindra S. Khare
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780847694044

This book provides an accessible introductory discussion of issues in Islamic law, justice, and society. At the center of the volume is a discussion of some interrelated theological, historical, legal, and practical issues facing Islamic law in such different countries and regions as Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, and South Asia. This will be a valuable book for students and scholars of Middle Eastern studies, law, and history.

Beyond the Exotic

Beyond the Exotic
Author: Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815655436

Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing) them—or Islamic society in general—"they" have been dealt with outside of general women’s history and regarded as having little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide. By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used material (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies. Scholars revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress. By deconstructing the past, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on women’s roles and aspirations in Middle East societies.

Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory

Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory
Author: Jacob Lassner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1838607293

How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse? In this book, Medieval Near Eastern historian Jacob Lassner explores the resonance of ancient and medieval history in the political disputes that dominate the contemporary Middle East. From identification with ancient forbears as a method of legitimization and nation-building, to tracing the deep history of the concept of revolution in the Arab world, the author probes the historical foundations of modern conflicts in the region. A medievalist, the author takes the position that an appreciation of cultural history is essential to understanding the debate surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict. In turn, the book identifies the misappropriation and misunderstanding of the past, deliberate or accidental, as key weapon in the ongoing conflict.

A Brief Tour through the Quran

A Brief Tour through the Quran
Author: Haya Muhammad Eid
Publisher: Haya Muhammad Eid
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre:
ISBN:

Revealed over the period from 610 to 630 C.E., the Noble Qur'an is cherished by Muslims as God’s Final Word and Prophet Muhammad's timeless miracle. It shall forever remain in its original form, changeless in the guidance it provides for the various situations, challenges, difficulties, and vicissitudes that life brings. Its subject is the human; any human. Its field is earth; all the earth. Its message is to remove the burdens and break the chains of servitude to oneself and to others, and to live in genuine liberty and relief within the merciful Sovereignty of God alone. A Brief Tour through the Qur’an will take you on a journey of discovery through the meanings of selected Qur’anic verses and allow you to experience its message, which is for all eras and all of humanity. “Verily, this Qur’an guides to that which is most just and right and gives glad tidings to the believers.” [Qur’an 17: 9]

The People of the Book and the People of the Dubious Book (Penerbit USM)

The People of the Book and the People of the Dubious Book (Penerbit USM)
Author: Muhammad Azizan Sabjan
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2008
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 9838618535

The question of the People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitāb) has long been of central significance to Islam and later to the study of comparative religion. It becomes more crucial when Abū al-Fath Muhammad ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Shahrastānī (d.548/1153) develops another category known as “Man Lahu Shubhat Kitāb” (those who possess doubtful sacred scrolls) or “Ahl Shubhat Kitāb” (the People of a Dubious Book). The present book thus is of importance as it highlights the nature of the People of the Book and the People of a Dubious Book as understood in the Qur’ān and Islamic religious tradition. The discussion is carried out both by analyzing Islam as the only genuinely revealed religion as well as by addressing various Muslim scholars’ attitudes and responses to the reality and nature of the People of the Book and the People of a Dubious Book apropos the Qur’ān and the Islamic religious tradition. Evaluation of the nature of the People of a Dubious Book as exclusively developed by al-Shahrastānī is also discussed. It points out how he identifies these groups and how he treats them accordingly in his magnum opus, al-Milal wa al-Nihal. It is hoped that this book will provide a preliminary yet clear understanding of this concept, which hopefully can deepen our knowledge and enhance our perspective on the various delineations of the People of the Book and the People of a Dubious Book employed by Muslim scholars. This will eventually widen our sphere of the understanding of religious issues and any misunderstanding or narrowed perception of other religious traditions could be avoided.