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Ibn Rushd
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was an Arab historian, philosopher, and statesman whose treatise, the Muqaddima, in which he pioneered a general sociological theory of history, shows him as one of the most original thinkers of the Middle... Read more |
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Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Yusuf ibn Tashufin Yusuf ibn Tashufin (died 1106) was a North African Almoravid ruler and conqueror who created the first Berber Empire uniting North Africa and Spain. Before 1061, when he was appointed commander of the Almoravid armies in Morocco by his cousin Abu Bakr, virtually nothing is... Read more |
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Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab Among the least understood of the thinkers and leaders who have shaped the modern world is Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1702–c. 1791), the founder of the fundamentalist branch of Islamic thought and practice known as Wahhabism. Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's life... Read more |
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Ahmad ibn Sirin
Ahmad ibn Sirin (ca. ninth century C.E.) (Also known as Achmet). Arabian seer who wrote a book on dream interpretation, now known only in the Greek and Latin translations, which was published in Paris in 1603 titled Oneirocritica. ... Read more |
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Ibrahim Ibn Sinan
IBRaHiM IBN SINaN IBN THaBIT IBN QURRA(b. Baghdad [?], 908; d. Baghdad, 946),mathematics, astronomy. For the original article on Ibrahim see DSB, vol 7.Ibrahim Ibn Sinan Ibn Thabit Ibn Qurra composed a survey of the whole field of geometrical analysis, contributed an original quadrature of the... Read more |
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Idrisids
IDRISIDS Descendants of Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi living in southwestern Arabia. The principality of Asir has been important in the politics of southwestern Arabia. It was incorporated into the new state of Saudi Arabia in 1926 when Abd al-Aziz ibn Sa Read more |
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Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud
Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud , 1913-82, king of Saudi Arabia (1975-82). He became king after the assassination of his half-brother Faisal . The son of Ibn Saud , the founder of Saudi Arabia, he was the third of Ibn Saud's sons to become king. He continued the widespread economic and social... Read more |
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Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariyya Al-Razi
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King of Jordan Abdullah
Abdullah ibn Husein Abdullah ibn Husein (1882-1951) was an Arab nationalist and political leader who established and became king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Born in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Abdullah ibn Husein was the second son of Husein ibn Ali in the city's leading family,... Read more |
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Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Thought
...assumed. He also considers Ibn Surayj to have been instrumental...and the role of the human aql was to be recognized early on. He states, "Ibn Surayj's legacy was to...nature of Revelation".Ibn Surayj, like most other...that he generally held the ... |
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Alchemie, Ketzerei, Apokryphen in fruhen Islam: Gesammelte Aufsatze
...most important one, Rahat al'aql, have since been published...of creation." 2. "Dschabir ibn HaBan und die Isma'ilijja...900. 3. "Studien zu Jabir ibn Hayygn." Several points developed...hitrarchie religieuse selon G*bir ibn Hayyan." Passages from Kitab... |
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Books received 2004-2005.
...Adwa' Jadida 'ala Muhaddadat al-'Aql al-'Imrani alKhalduni (Arabic).Tunis...2005. Paper $23.50. Simon, Robert. Ibn Khaldun: History as Science and the Patrimonial...57.00. LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES Ibn Khaldun (with an introduction by Bruce... |
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La Quietude de l'intellect: Neoplatonisme et gnose ismaelienne dans l'oeuvre...
...Ismaili theoreticians. A contemporary of Ibn Sina, he was, like him, a representative...al-Kirmani's greatest work Rahat al- aql ("The Comfort of Mind"), is, however...thereof) in the writings of al-Farabi and Ibn Sina and a variety of other Islamic thinkers... |
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The Literature of Islam: A Guide to the Primary Sources in English Translation
...readers entirely innocent of Arabic (e.g., "OCK-ul" for 'aql, p. 128). As strange as these helps may look to Arabists...Rasul Allah and George Makdisi's edition and translation of Ibn Qudamah's Censure of Speculative Theology. The earliest kalam... |
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Where Islam can return to itself
...Asia. For the first time in three decades the city, where Ali Ibn Abitalib, the first imam of Shi'ism, is buried, is open...politics of society. The Shi'ites believe that human reason - aql - must be regarded as superior to tradition or naql. Religious... |
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