the purpose of this article is to identify the various mystical interpretations of horuf-e-moqatta’e (separated letters) in qur’an. ten mystical interpreters-the qur’an-al-azim, haghayegh-al-tafsir, lata’ef- al-esharat, kashf-al-asrar, ara’es-al-bayan, ta’vilat, rouh-al-bayan, manzum e safi, bayan-al-sa’adah- have been selected from several centuries and their explanations, after entries about ...

shawāhid al-nabuwwa of ‘abd al-raḥmān jāmī (d. 898/1492) is among the books written by one of the sunnī scholars who has authored it with a sufi taste. in this book, jāmī has addressed the life of the prophet (s.a.w.), the twelve imams (a.s.), and the companions (ṣaḥāba) with a miracle-oriented approach and has presented precisely the same reports about the imams (a.s.) that are found in shī‘ī ...

This article examines the stance held by a Meccan-Indonesian exegete in 13 AH or 19 AD century, Muḥammad Nawawī al-Bantānī (d. 1230–1314 H/1813–1897 AD), dealing with Ṣifāt verses his exegetical work, Marāḥ Labīd li Kashf Ma’nā al-Qur’ān al-Majīd. As an established term, refer to Quranic expressions that ostensibly ascribe anthropomorphic dimensions God. Interpretation of such ambiguous has bee...

historiography by sunnīs on the subject of the purified imams (a.s.)’s life started along with the shī‘as’ and has continued ever since. the evolutionary development of this trend, which has had its ups and downs proportionate to the cultural vicissitudes of the muslim world, requires undergoing serious studies. despite addressing such issues as the why, the how, and the context of the producti...

Purpose. This study retrospectively analyzed the postoperative visual functions of myopic eyes implanted with multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) to evaluate the efficacy of multifocal IOL in highly myopic eyes. Methods. We studied 61 patients (96 eyes) who were implanted with multifocal IOL ZMA00 or ZMB00 (Abbott Medical Optics). The patients were stratified into two groups by axial length: 26 m...