Social Progress - Arabic Language, Culture, and Heritage

Revisiting the Lost City of Al-Qata'i'

Submitted by siteadmin on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 09:31

Following on the previous research, Dr. Tarek Swelim will deliver a lecture to revisit the discoveries in the Lost City of al-Qata'i'. The city of al-Qata’i’ was founded by Ahmad Ibn Tulun in 870 A.D., being the third capital of Islamic Egypt, after those of al-Fustat and al-Askar. Historical sources tell us that it had splendid buildings never seen before in Egypt, since the time of the Ptolemies. The flourishing city of al-Qata’i’ was seized and destroyed by the Abbasids in 905 A.D. The city is well described by its contemporary historians.

Adamiyyah and ‘Ismah: The Contested Relationship between Humanity and Human Rights in the Classical Islamic Law

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Sat, 09/10/2022 - 14:23
In this article it is argued that the cleavage in modern legal discourse between the advocates of universal human rights and domestic civil rights has also been observed in Islamic law since its formative period in the first ce~tury oflslam, which correspondsto the seventh century AD. A survey of the works of

Critical Methods on Hadīth: Self Reflexivity in Hadīth Scholarship

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Sat, 09/10/2022 - 14:13
Hadīth narration, I argue, remained an excessively self-critical and selfreflective activity regarding ties, identities, and networks, but not only regarding narrative texts. The Sciences of hadīth, which emerged gradually parallel to the formation of hadīth transmission network, document the way hadīth narrators examined their own network.1 A survey of this literature below will show that narrators developed a differentiated view to hadīth, its narrators and types of their ties. Furthermore, they analyzed patterns in the transmission networks of hadīth to determine the degree of reliability.

The ‘Constitution of Medina’: Muhammad's First Legal Document by Michael Lecker

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Sat, 09/10/2022 - 14:02
Michael Lecker provides us with a monograph exclusively focused on a single legal document from the time of the Prophet. Among both specialists in Islamic studies and the general public, this document is commonly known as the ‘Constitution of Madina’. Yet the creators of the document called it ‘kit:b’— literally, ‘a written document’. The book derives from the author’s Ph.D. thesis submitted in Hebrew to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in 1982.

The Sociology of Civilisations: Ibn Khaldun and a Multi-Civilisational World Order

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Sat, 09/10/2022 - 13:57

Due to advancements in telecommunications and transportation over the past century, the world is shrinking and physical boundaries are being eroded. The advent of globalization has facilitated the flow of ideas, values, goods, and people from one part of the world to another. This hyperbolic human activity has altered the structure of inter-civilizational relations and has spawned a spirited debate on how to create a multi-civilizational world order.

Sociology of Rights: Inviolability of the Other in Islam between Communalism Universalistism

Submitted by Umar Farooq Patel on Sat, 09/10/2022 - 12:31
This book provides a counterweight to the prevailing opinions of Islamic thought as conservative and static with a preference for violence over dialogue. It gathers together a collection of eminent scholars from around the world who tackle issues such as intellectual pluralism, gender, the ethics of political participation, human rights, non-violence and religious harmony. This book provides a progressive outlook for
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