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Category: Muslim Scholars
Ibn Sina’s 1038th Birthday #GoogleDoodle. One of the pre-modern world’s most influential philosophers, Ibn Sina…
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Watch this short video excerpt of Professor Ali Asani giving a quick history of Ismaili…
His Highness the Aga Khan: Reminiscences of over Six Decades By Seyyed Hossein Nasr In…
Watch this short 2 minutes video excerpt of scholar Aziz Esmail. He describes the elusive…
We are immensely thankful to Andrew Kosorok for this exclusive interview with popular author and…
My family hails from Iran, and I was born in Florida. I spent a significant…
If the Imam of the Time were to ask you: ‘Do you know what an…
In a constellation of brilliant philosophers like Hasan bin Sabbah, political geniuses like Rashid al-Din…
Ismailism belongs to the Shi‘a main stream of Islam. Recent scholarship, based on a more…
Contemporary science finds its roots in the work of ancient Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars.…
Just before departing on a trip to Iran, Andrew Kosorok comes across a book which…
Ibn Sina (d.1037 CE) or Avicenna, as he is known in the West, was a physician,…
Specialists on Islam will come together Sept. 7-9 at Vanderbilt University to discuss the historical…
Make a shield from knowledge, for there is no stronger shield against calamities. Whosoever owns…
Al-Naysaburi, a Fatimid author, wrote about the ideal characteristics of a da’i: namely the virtues…
“…that which perceives things as they are is the intellect, while knowledge is in the Pearl…
Test your knowledge of the scholars, scientists, and da’is of the Muslim civilisations. The material…
Remembrance of the Heart “O heart, come and listen, to the attributes of Haydar,1 so…
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Al-Maqrizi (d. 1442), a Sunni, Egyptian scholar, was a prolific author of the Mamluk period…
Farīd Ud-Dīn Attar, a pharmacist and poet in 12th-century Nishapur, Iran, composed The Conference of the Birds as a Sufi allegory for the soul’s journey to the Divine
From the Greek astron “star” and lambanein “to take,” the astrolabe is an ancient astronomical instrument used…
“There were so many contributions over a millennium that it’s impossible to pick just a few.”
