Contested Avenues in Post-Classical Sunni Ḥadīth Criticism: A Reading Through the Lens of AL-Mughnī ʿAn AL-ḤifẒ WA-L-Kitāb

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...

Kitāb al-shukūk `alā Jālīnūs li-l-tabīb al-faylasūf Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he w...

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...

MIFTAH AL-TIBB WA-MINHAJ AL-TULLAB THE KEY TO THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE AND THE STUDENTS GUIDE TO STUDY

Abū l-`Alā' Zuhr (m. 525/1130): Kitāb al-Muŷarrabāt (Libro de las experiencias médicas)

sets of Roman medical instruments for the range of medical and surgical operations which might have been carried out during the period of their use, and the extent of specialization by Roman practitioners. The second section, covering "women, children and sexuality", is less extensive and wide ranging. It includes papers by Danielle Gourevitch, who draws attention to the instructions provided b...