David King: World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca
If one finds a microchip in a tomb in a pyramid then either some modern put it there or we should revise our opinions of the technological achievements of the a...
Month: April 2021
Who Speaks for Whom: Authority, Tradition, and Encyclopedias of Islam
In retrospect, 1913 seems relatively unremarkable, especially compared to the following year which ushered the world into the first of the two great wars of the...
The Qur’ān and its Disbelievers
According to the majority Muslim scholarly opinion, the first revelation of the Qurʾān occurred when the Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, was in retreat a...
Virtues of the Imam Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal by Ibn al-Jawzī
This is perhaps one of the most important translation so far in the Library of Arabic Literature Series which offers bilingual editions of key works of classica...
Marwa Elshakry: Reading Darwin in Arabic
This ground-breaking work on the reception of Darwin in the Arab world opens several windows to the complex process of the making of Darwin’s image in the Arab ...
Ubiquitous Numbers
A newborn baby hardly begins to breathe the conditioned air of the hospital room into which he or she is ushered with the help of ubiquitous technologies which ...
The Descent of the Qur’an
Two augmented verbal forms of the trilateral root n-z-l are used in the Qurʾān to refer to its own descent, in both spatial and temporal sen...