Part of an annotated translation of a section on epistemology from al-Masā’il fī al-Khilāf bayn al-Basriyyīn wa al-Baghdādiyyīn by Abū Rashīd Nisābūrī (d. 1068) is presented here. 1 The section depict...
Received news from Dr Shehzad Saleem on 22nd of April that our dear and beloved Abdus Sattar Ghauri sāhib (b. 1935) had passed away. Ironically, I also received recording of a couplet by Hasan Ilyas a...
Part of an annotated translation of a section on epistemology from al-Masā’il fī al-Khilāf bayn al-Basriyyīn wa al-Baghdādiyyīn by Abū Rashīd Nisābūrī (d. 1068) is presented here. 1 The section depict...
This paper presents an annotated translation of a section on epistemology from al-Masā’il fī al-Khilāf bayn al-Basriyyīn wa al-Baghdādiyyīn by Abū Rashīd Nisābūrī (d. 1068). 1 The section depicts inte...
In his paper, “The Last of the Nishapuri School of Tafsīr: Al-Wāhidī (d. 468/1076) and his Significance in the History of Qur’ānic Exegesis,” Walid Saleh, looks at the gradual privileging of theologic...
Question: The Qur’ān alludes to condemnation of male homosexuality, but does not prohibit lesbianism. Is this argument sound? Also, there is no legal punishment prescribed for homosexuality (and defin...
Although Hallaq has shown convincingly that, contrary to the common perception of many Western scholars, the gates of ijtihād were never closed as such in the medieval Sunni schools, 1 the fact remain...
Author: John F. Richards Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge University Press As part of the new Cambridge history of India, Richards’ work as a single-volume, coherent narrative history of the Mughal emp...
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Alexander John Malik Lahore, Pakistan Dear Bishop I have no words to express my grief and anguish at the recent tragedy of Christian persecution at Gojra. Insignificant as my humbl...
In my live interview in “NewsEye” with Dawn TV last month, I was unaware that Q.4:34 had been cited earlier to critique the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) recommendations on divorce. Any sound exeg...
Why another School? Among many responsibilities of an educational institution, one particularly important, especially in relation to our society, is that the younger generation be educated in such a w...
In a recent seminar on Professionalism in Teaching, a visiting scholar at Ali Institute of Education (a teacher training institute in Lahore), spoke on the issue. This article explains the points she...
Would that the honourable court held by Justice Abdul Hafeez Cheema on 25 September 1996 giving the verdict on a girl’s marriage without her Waliy’s 1 consent had given weight to these points: 1. ‘No...
In the darkest of dark nights The sky lit up with the lights Comfort none to the one that cries In infant innocence, it just dies: I eeded love, not your pride I gave just love, took no side You did m...
We have received an email from Asif Iftikhar, a respected colleague and member of Editorial Board of the journal expressing strong resentment on the publishing of an article. The email and its respons...
In this world wonderful, colourful The panting human, doing needful! The heart doth desire the sublime The beyond, will the soul climb But Oh, how shall I say it all! To exist, doth the human fall! In...
This discussion took place last year through e-mails among a number of students at McGill and Concordia Universities in Montreal, Canada. The gist of the original is presented here for the readers. (E...
In me poesy shall you find love with all its faces All the joys that spring forth, all burdens it places In heart’s shrine bury, let not your feelings be revealed Oft love would stand profaned, were i...
Demons all around me Lord Of them the worst is me Though your name I hail my Lord I am but frail my Lord So far from longed destiny Yet, to your mercy, your love My struggling hope does cling I know m...
Demons all around me Lord Of them the worst is me Though your name I hail my Lord I am but frail my Lord So far from longed destiny Yet, to your mercy, your love My struggling hope does cling I know m...
