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...

El presente trabajo trata de aproximarse a la dimensión social, política y arquitectónica una institución gran relevancia para historia del Magreb, zāwiya. Esta ha determinado en medida vida religiosa Occidente islámico desde Edad Media, modo que su presencia es significativa tanto el mundo urbano como rural. Sin embargo, estudio lo largo los distintos periodos históricos resulta conflictivo ya...

For the very first time, Russian readers are offered translation of one most rarely published (in Arab world) and practically unknown (everywhere else) works Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdi (930-1023), “[An Epistle] on Penmanship (Arabic Calligraphy)” (982). As those who popularized knowledge, an encyclopedist, unrivaled master style a Mu’tazilite scholar Al-Tawḥīdi, using Adab literature, shares all tha...

Iftirāq hadith creates its own problems. The is used as a tool that triggers internal religious conflicts, truth claims, and stereotypes, so on. Moreover, the also found in Sunan Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmiżī, Ibn Mājah; three authoritative sunan scholarship. It important to look at this from most basic aspect, namely how sources of transmission, networks, socio-political-cultural contexts surround exi...