Author Name: Murad W. Hofmann Book Name: Islam 2000. 2nd rev. ed ( ISBN 0-915957-70-1) Pages: 72 Price: USD 6.95 Publisher: Amana Publications, USA 14118/1997. Murad Hofmann is a German convert to Isl...
One of the long-standing objections levelled against the Qur’ān by its non-Muslim critics is that it appears to have no regular form or structure. It is said that its verses follow one another with li...
I. Preliminary Many of the early Qur’ānic sūrahs contain oaths, typical of which are the oaths sworn by the sun and the moon, day and night, and light and darkness. While both Muslim and Western schol...
I In the 1890s Richard Moulton, author of The Literary Study of the Bible, was able to justify the need for his work by pointing out that ‘Literature’, as opposed to ‘literatures’ – Greek, Hebrew, and...
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This translation of the 31st sūrah is an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur’ānic text in readable, idiomatic language while staying close to the original. The translation is preceded by a synop...
The opening Sūrah of the Qur’ān is generally regarded as consisting of seven verses. There is, however, disagreement on whether the basmalah is part of the sūrah and is to be counted as one of the sev...
The Muslims of the world, taken as one body, do not present the image of a coherent personality. There is, that is to say, no consensus among them about certain fundamental issues. They are not all co...
‘Preaching’ -- the word instantly calls to mind the methods and devices long since popular among Muslims for propagating Islam. When a certain approach to a problem becomes time-honoured, people find...
The 35th verse of the 24th surah of the Qur’an, an-Nur, is known as the Light Verse (ayat an-nur). The verse is so called because of the remarkable parable of light---Divine Light--it contains. Here i...
A widely held belief about the Qur’ān is that it makes its basic appeal to emotions and not to reason. Among the advocates of this view were the Muslim philosophers of early centuries who used a theor...
I ‘When there are three on a journey they should appoint one of them their commander 1 .’ This tradition of the Holy Prophet spotlights the importance that Islam attaches to organized activity in huma...
‘Preaching’---the word instantly calls to mind the methods and devices long since popular among Muslims for propagating Islam. When a certain approach to a problem becomes time-honoured, people find i...
Caliph Ali is one of the most famous sages of Islam. His turbulent era made it difficult for him to pay full attention to the affairs of State and administration. But his exceptionally discreet and sc...
One of the long-standing objections levelled against the Qur’ān by its non-Muslim critics is that it appears to have no regular form or structure. It is said that its verses follow one another with li...
The Muslims of the world, taken as one body, do not present the image of a coherent personality. There is, that is to say, no consensus among them about certain fundamental issues. They are not all co...
In several Muslim countries today, there is being witnessed, in one form or other, the phenomenon of Islamic Renaissance. Of the many features of this phenomenon there is one which may be called its h...
