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Keys to the Sciences (Maqālīd al-ʿulūm): A Gift for the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ on the Definitions of Technical Terms
Editors: Gholamreza Dadkhah and Reza Pourjavady

Maqālīd al-ʿulūm (Keys to the Sciences) is a significant source on definitions of Arabic scientific terms in the post-classical period. Composed by an anonymous author, it contains over eighteen hundred definitions in the realm of twenty-one religious, literary, and rational sciences. The work was dedicated to the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ, who ruled over Shiraz and its neighbouring regions from 759/1358 to 786/1384. The present volume contains a critical edition of Maqālīd al-ʿulūm based on its three extant manuscripts. In the introduction, the editors review previous scholarship on the text, present an overview of patronage at the court of Shāh Shujāʿ and identify some of the sources used by the author of the work. They suggest that the work in its structure mirrors Abū ʿAbdullāh Khwārazmī’s Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm, completed in 366/976.

Scott Alexander’s interest in Islam dates back to the early 1980s, when he was both witnessing the events of the Islamist revolution in Iran, and concentrating in comparative religion as an undergraduate at Harvard. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, Scott went on to Columbia University in New York where he earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of religions, with a concentration in Islamic studies. From 1986 to 1990, Scott taught courses on Islam and the history of religions at Columbia, Fordham, and Princeton University, and in 1991 he took a position on the religious studies faculty of Indiana University in Bloomington where he taught as an assistant professor of Islamic studies from 1993 to 2000.

Scott is the author of a number of articles on Islamic history and religion and Christian-Muslim Relations published in scholarly journals, edited collections, and encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East (Macmillan, 1996) and the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (E.J. Brill, 2001-2005). He has also authored many online blog posts and op-ed essays addressing issues of Islamophobia, and has been featured in a number of videos such as the Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths series (Work of the People, 2010). His most recent scholarlyresearch focuses on the role of triumphalism in Christian-Muslim Relations and deals with the inherent contradiction between religious claims to universal truth and the religiously motivated desire to impose this truth on others as a means of political and cultural domination.

In addition to sitting on the editorial board of The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Scott is a regular consultant on Catholic-Muslim relations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also is a member of the advisory boards for the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University School of Philanthropy, and the Alliance for Shared Values (New York City), the Niagara Foundation (Chicago) and the Antalya Kültürlerarası Diyalog Merkezi (Antalya, Turkey).

Scott lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago where he is a member of the parish family of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle. He is the proud father of Myles “Chitriman” Alexander, a rising professional triathlete, and is married to Karen Lewis Alexander, currently vice president for development at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

دور المياه في الصناعات

النفطية والكيمياوية في

محافظة البصرة

دراسة في جغرافية الصناعة


أطروحة يقدمها الطالب

محمد علي جبر المساعد

إلى مجلس كلية التربية للعلوم الإنسانية جامعة البصرة -

وهي جزء من متطلبات نيل درجة الدكتوراه فلسفة

في الجغرافية


بإشراف

الأستاذ الدكتورة

كفاية عبد الله عبد العباس العلي

1442هـ - 2020م


The Role of Water in Petroleum and Chemical Industries in Basra Governorate
(A study in the geography of industry)


A thesis submitted by

Mohammad Ali Jaber almsaeed

A Dissertation Submitted to the Council of College of Education for Human Sciences in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor OF Philosophy in Geography


Supervised by:

PROF. DR. KIFAYAH ABDULLAH ABDULABBAS AL-ALI


2020 A.D - 1442 A.H

تقويم جغرافي لعوامل الجذب السياحي في محافظتي النجف الأشراف وبابل - دراسة مقارنة

مقدمة الأطروحة
نور جواد عبد الله الحلفي

إلى مجلس كلية الآداب – جامعة الكوفة وهي جزء من متطلبات درجة الدكتوراه فلسفة في الجغرافية

بإشراف

الأستاذ الدكتور
وهاب فهد يوسف الياسري


1442هـ  - 2021م

Geographical Evaluation of Tourist Attractions Elements in AL – Najaf Al- Ashraf and Babil Province A Comparative Study

A Thesis Submitted by :

Noor Jawad Abdul Allah AL-Hilfi

To : The Council of the College of Arts / University of Kufa As a Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Ph.D. Degree in the philosophy of Geography

Supervised by:
Prof. Dr.
Wahab Fahed Al-Yasiry

1442 A.H. - 2021 A.D

Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness aims to bring together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches exploring the notion of impoliteness and the usage of impoliteness phenomena in language and discourse per se, instead of simply considering impoliteness as politeness that has gone wrong. Impoliteness draws mainly on linguistics, but also its sub-disciplines, as well as related disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and communication. Various researchers have been selected to contribute to Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness, and the diversity of sub-disciplinary approaches is reflected in the multi-dimensional organisation of the five sections of the book. The book is divided into five thematic parts, with 16 chapters in all, as follows. The first part aims to study the links between impoliteness and rudeness, by providing a general framework to these notions. The second part deals with occurrences of impoliteness in television series and drama, when the third part mainly focuses on the discursive creations of impoliteness found in literary works. The fourth part concentrates on impoliteness and the philosophy of language, and the fifth and final part offers some case-studies of impoliteness in modern communication.

2nd International Conference on Shi'i Studies.

Dates: 7-8 May 2016
Location: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, London NW10 2SW
Registration: Visit www.islamic-college.ac.uk/shiistudies or email editor@islamic-college.ac.uk.
Registration fees (including lunch):
Saturday & Sunday - £40.00 (£25.00 for students)
Saturday or Sunday - £25.00 (£20.00 for students)

REGISTRATION LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE PER DAY

Schedule (subject to change)
Please note that Session A and Session B are parallel sessions held in separate rooms.

Saturday (7 May 2016)

9:30-10:00 – Registration, coffee
10:00-10:30 – Opening talks
10:30-11:30 – Panel 1
Session A: Qur’an & Hadith
• Translating Al-Kafi: how to make a classical Shii text accessible to 21st century readers
Oliver Scharbrodt
• Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Vinay Khetia

Session B: Worldwide Islamic heritage
• Lines Back to Ali, Roads Forward to Shiism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran
Emiko Stock
• “Our Vanished Lady”: Memory, Ritual, and Shi’a-Sunni Relations at Bibi Pak Daman
Noor Zehra Zaidi

11:45-12:45 – Panel 2
Session A: Modern thought
• A comparative study of feminist and traditional Shi‘i approaches to Qur’anic exegesis
Mohammed Ali Ismail
• The Disenchantment of Reason: An Anti-rational Trend in Modern Shi‘i Thought- Tafkikis
Ali Paya

Session B: Worldwide Islamic Heritage (continued)
• Shi‘ite Manuscripts Collection in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana / Milano: Remarks on Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā)
Ali Faraj
• Judaeo-Islamic Heritage
M. J. Shomali

12:45-2:00 – Lunch

2:00-3:30 – Panel 3
Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism
• Shi’a Philosophers and the Question of Criterion of Truth
Mohammad Hoseinzadeh
• The meaning of knowledge in early philosophical Shiism. A comparative analysis of the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Al-Sijistānī and its Neoplatonic sources.
Lucas Oro Hershtein
• Is Shi’i Philosophy a Useful Concept?
Oliver Leaman

Session B: Shi’ism in North America and Europe
• A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has The Shia-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred To Canada?
Jafar Ahmed
• African American Twelver Shia Community of/in New York
Abbas Aghdassi
• Muslim (Shi'a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws
Tahir Wasti and M. Mesbahi

3:45-5:15 – Panel 4

Session A: Philosophy and Shi’ism (continued)
• The Perfect Man According to Sadra and Buddhism: A Comparative Study
Ali Jafari
• Revelation and Philosophy: From Distinction to Equality. Study of the Maktab-i Tafkīk and their opponents in the contemporary Shī’a Seminary
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari
• Reason, Metaphysics, and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
Javad Esmaeili

Session B: Shi’ism in Nigeria
• Shia Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015
Sani Yakubu Adam
• Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shia Ideology in Northern Nigeria
Kabiru Haruna Isa

5:15-5:30 – Closing

Sunday (8 May 2016)

10:00-10:30 – Coffee, announcements

10:30-11:30 – Panel 5

Session A: Fiqh and minorities
• Fiqh for Minorities: Shi’i Law in the Diaspora
Liyakat Takim
• Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi’ite Jurisprudence
Mahmoud Pargoo

Session B: Kalam
• The narrations of Clay (Tinat) and their analysis
Morteza Karimi
• A Critique of Prof. Amir-Moezzi’s Views on Messianic Teachings
Valipoor and Daryabari

11:45-1:15 – Panel 6

Session A: Multiple voices
• Tradition of Multivocality among Shia ʿUlamāʾ
Abbas Mehregan
• A New Approach to Twelver Shi‘ism
Aun Hasan Ali
• Shrinkage of the Scope of Ijtihād in Shī‘a Jurisprudence and its Reasons
Qasem Mohammadi

Session B: Shi’ism in Pre-Modern Iran and Surrounding Regions
• Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age
Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed
• The Polemical Work of Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran
Alberto Tiburcio Urq

Asalaamo Alaykom
(Peace be with all of you)

We wish you a fresh and blissful start to a new year that will God willingly be filled with joy, prosper, felicity, serenity, and true satisfaction.

We wish to see smiling faces, warmth and unity in families, bonds of brotherhood amongst the believers, and spiritual enlightenment in all.

May Gods blessing, mercy, and good tidings be with all of humanity, and specially his benignity on all the Mu’mineen and Mu’minat.

With that being said, Happy New Years on behalf of the @AbodeofWisdom admins.

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🌺 A Shi'ite Anthology 🌺

Foreword

If one studies the literature of Islam carefully, one will immediately encounter a vast and varied field of material.

First there is the network of laws and regulations which makes up Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and which takes into consideration and regulates man's every individual and social "movement and rest", activity and situation, at every moment of time, in every place and under all conditions, as well as every particular and general occurrence related to human life.

Second there is a vast range of moral and ethical expositions which weighs every sort of moral activity, whether praiseworthy or blamable, and presents as a model for human society that which befits the perfection of man.

Finally on the level of Islam's overall view of Reality there is the general "philosophy" of Islam, that is, its sciences relating to cosmology, spiritual anthropology and finally the knowledge of God, presented in the clearest possible expression and most direct manner.

On a more profound level of study and penetration it will become obvious that the various elements of this tradition, with all their astonishing complexity and variety, are governed by a particular kind of interrelationship; that all of these elements are reducible in the final analysis to one truth, the "Profession of God's Unity" (tawhid), which is the ultimate principle of all the Islamic sciences.

"A good word is as a good tree—its roots are in heaven, it gives its produce every season by the leave of its Lord"
(Quran 14 : 24).

The noble sayings and writings presented in the present work were selected and translated from the traditions left by the foremost exponents of Islam. They include expositions elucidating the principle of tawhid and making clear the fundamental basis of all Islamic sciences and pursuits.

At the same time they contain excellent and subtle allusions to the manner in which the important remaining sciences are ordered and organized around tawhid, how the moral virtues are based upon it, and how finally the practical aspects of Islam are founded upon and derived from these virtues.

Finally, 'Ali's "Instructions to Malik al-Ashtar" clarify the general situation of Islamic society in relation to the practical application of Islamic government.

All the traditions translated in the present work are summarized in the following two sentences: "Islam is the religion of seeing things as they are" and "Islam means to submit to the Truth (al-haqq) and to follow It in one's beliefs and actions."

Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i

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How to grow and develop, according to master of believers Imam Ali (عليه الصلاة والسلام)

Translated by: Manal Samhat

By Religious Authority, Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Husain Fadlullah (رضوان الله تعالي عليه)

Imam Ali (a.s.) has talked a lot about fanaticism and its destructive impacts on individuals and groups alike, and he mentioned many things that are capable of immunizing people against this repugnant immoral disease and attaching them to the human values, which, if they abide to, will make them ascend, progress, grow and open up to the positions of strength in the world.

The role of cognitive experience

As we go through this issue, we notice that Imam Ali (a.s.) calls on us to study the history of the nations in all their points of weakness and strength determined according to their negative experiences that were harmful to their situations or the positive experiences that elevated their level. The Imam (a.s.) actually wants the people to study the thought, any thought, in its theoretical and practical framework and to examine its influences on the ground, when experienced, for experience, scientifically speaking, proves what the thought truly is. A negative experience of a negative thought will prove that if such a thought is applied in reality, it will lead to negative results in man’s life, while a positive experience that is based on a positive thought will definitely prove how realistic this thought is and confirm its positive effects on man’s life.

And we know that cognition and knowledge in Islam are based on two aspects:

1- The aspect of contemplation, that is when an idea is brought up and man tries to use his mind to contemplate its elements and determine how realistic it can be, and this is the approach of the philosophers throughout history.

2- The aspect of experience, whereby Islam came to base knowledge on experience. It is narrated that Imam Ali (a.s.) said: “Experience is a created mind”.

Experience, through its dynamism and extensions, represents the mental knowledge practiced on the ground, and it is narrated in a Hadith by Imam Ali (a.s.), in which he calls on people to benefit from experience, that he said: “The best of what you experienced is what gives you advice”.

Experience extends on two lines:

The first line is the experience you acquire from your personal practices, for you go through bitterness and sweetness, repulsiveness and pleasantness and goodness and evilness to unravel from within these traits the good and bad elements they entail, which determines the nature of what you went through whether positively or negatively.

The second line is the others’ experiences, whereby history, throughout time, shows you the experiences of others in the private and public lives. On the one hand, there are those who confronted the prophets, rebelled against them, stood against their movement in society and stirred conflicts, disagreements and seditions that are based on negative values, spearheaded by fanaticism. On the other hand, there are those who sided with them and demonstrated unity, amiability, harmony, accord and integration, values that if any nation upholds will be undertaking the line that leads to goodness and peace and lays the foundation for civilization, which could lead to development in knowledge and science and progress in the movement of openness, awareness and so on.

Lessons from past experiences

We know this from the Quranic revelation that talked about stories from the past about people who opposed the prophets and persecuted them and others who believed in them and helped them, whereby Allah mentioned the bad and good results of each action. This is evident in Allah’s saying: “In their histories there is certainly a lesson for men of understanding” (12:111), and the lesson here stands for the knowledge man acquires from experience after studying its nature and results.

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✳️ Roads to Paradise؛ Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam

🔹Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson

Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter.

It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism.

Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies.

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✳️ Then I Was Guided
The first book of Dr. Mohammad al Tījānī after having been guided to deep and true knowledge of Islam. A true story about how the light of truth was ignited in his heart. Every sincere Muslim is invited to read this book attentively, because there are explicit evidences and answers to the main issues on which the Shiites are blamed.

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How do we evoke Ashoura?

In light of the abovementioned, the nation should take lessons on the occasion of Ashoura, namely how to render our grief a source of power, not weakness, and how to cry out of our allegiance to Al-Husein peace be with him, not frustration, and how to consider Ashoura a movement to empower ourselves, not a mere occasion for grief and tears. Al-Husein peace be with him represents the Islamic unity, and the Karbala event should be relayed and presented correctly.

Many of those who read the narration of Karbala rely on false and superficial and unfounded events.

Today, we call the narrators to relay the story of Karbala in a realistic historical manner, so that we understand its real meaning, significance, and impact on our reality. We want Ashoura to benefit from the modern technical means; starting from theatre, the art of the creative novel, and the art of acting.

We want the world to see the humanitarian and Islamic revolution, in which the values are embodied in the movement, and the cause integrates with the tragedy, and the sacrifice unites with the responsibility.

Ashoura is not for the backward people, but for the free ones who seek freedom in their struggle against the tyrants and arrogant powers.

Karbala is for those who stood up against oppression and triumphed against it and gave us the meaning of victory Imam Al-Husein peace be with him experienced when the blood triumphed over the sword.

O beloved ones,
Let us renew the cause of Ashoura, so that it would live, and reach out to mankind, because in every era, we need something to renew our minds, and make us know how to deal with our present for the best of our future. Be those who look at the future, not those who lock themselves in the past. Peace be upon you.

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A Must Read book..
Al Murāj’āt المراجعات

One of best books on the theological distinctions in the Shia and Sunni approach. It is a dialogue between a Shia scholar from Lebanon and a Sunni scholar from Egypt.

Allamah Sharafuddin, the author, proves how the Sunni school of thought diverted from the path of the last prophet of God and Qor’ān and attuned itself with the Umayyad dynasty.
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A Must Read book..
Al Murāj’āt المراجعات

One of best books on the theological distinctions in the Shia and Sunni approach. It is a dialogue between a Shia scholar from Lebanon and a Sunni scholar from Egypt.

Allamah Sharafuddin, the author, proves how the Sunni school of thought diverted from the path of the last prophet of God and Qor’ān and attuned itself with the Umayyad dynasty.
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Just Published
Keys to the Sciences (Maqālīd al-ʿulūm): A Gift for the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ on the Definitions of Technical Terms
Editors: Gholamreza Dadkhah and Reza Pourjavady

Maqālīd al-ʿulūm (Keys to the Sciences) is a significant source on definitions of Arabic scientific terms in the post-classical period. Composed by an anonymous author, it contains over eighteen hundred definitions in the realm of twenty-one religious, literary, and rational sciences. The work was dedicated to the Muzaffarid Shāh Shujāʿ, who ruled over Shiraz and its neighbouring regions from 759/1358 to 786/1384. The present volume contains a critical edition of Maqālīd al-ʿulūm based on its three extant manuscripts. In the introduction, the editors review previous scholarship on the text, present an overview of patronage at the court of Shāh Shujāʿ and identify some of the sources used by the author of the work. They suggest that the work in its structure mirrors Abū ʿAbdullāh Khwārazmī’s Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm, completed in 366/976.