End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition [PDF]
Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself.
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An Avicennian Engagement with and Appropriation of Mullā Ṣadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1045/1636): The Case of Mahdī Narāqī (d. 1209/1795) [PDF]
This is the final version. Available on open access from Brill via the DOI in this recordRecent scholarship on Avicenna and Avicennism has tended to focus on the spread and dissemination of his ideas in the early centuries.
Rizvi, S
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Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina [PDF]
It would be a reasonable inference from our sources that each time Muḥammad was away from Medina he left behind a deputy. The object of this paper is to collect and interpret the information our sources provide about these deputies.
Cook, Michael
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The role of Sufism in the development of Islam among Hui Muslims in China (7th –19th centuries) [PDF]
This historiographical study investigates the role of Sufism in the development and continuity of Islam among Hui Muslims in China from the 7th to the 19th centuries.
Mai, Jianjun
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The Ethics of War in Islam in Light of Contemporary International Relations: An Applied Jurisprudential Study [PDF]
يتناول هذا البحث أخلاقيات المسلمين في الحروب، والضوابط التي تلتزم بها الفئة المؤمنة قبْلَ وأثناء وبعد المعركة، وهي تقاتل عدوًا لدودًا، ينوي استئصال شأفتها، واحتلال أرضها، ونهب ثرواتها، ومع ذلك فهي ملتزمة بهذه الضوابط إذ الأمر يتعلق ببُعدٍ ديني وأخلاقي لا
Barakat Salhab, Belal +2 more
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Withholding judgment on Islamic universalism: Ibn al-Wazir (d. 840/1436) on the duration and purpose of hell-fire [PDF]
Hoover, Jon
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The Reverend and the Shaykh: Jonathan Edwards, Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and the encounter of eighteenth-century conservatism in New England and Najd [PDF]
In many ways, Jonathan Edwards and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb are about as far apart as two figures could possibly be. Without minimizing their very real differences, however, this comparative study finds numerous parallels that beckon even the most ...
Leo, R.A.
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The Public Sphere during the Later Abbasid Caliphate (1000- 1258 CE): The Role of Sufism [PDF]
This study reconsiders and overturns key Orientalist assumptions about popular agency and despotic rule in medieval Islamic society. These assumptions encompass the notions that no relationship existed between the lower rungs of society and the ruling ...
Muhammad, Atta
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Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes [PDF]
Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective,
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