Social Progress - Arabic Language, Culture, and Heritage
Islamic Religious Philosophy: Towards a Comprehensive Approach
The challenge of going beyond the fragmented and nuclear approaches in understanding the Islamic founding texts and, accordingly, addressing the problems that face Muslims from a holistic perspective, has been the foremost concern of the modern
Portal on the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad at the Qatar Digital Library: Collection of Manuscripts, Historical References, and Translations into English
The intent of this project is to collect and get the permissions from various Patriarchates, Libraries and Museums to create a portal at the Qatar Digital Library to display their manuscripts on the covenants of the Prophet and extracts from primary sources which are relevant to understanding the covenants. Translations of the various covenants will also be available in English along with the relevant passages of the primary sources.
The Nahda and the Covenants of Prophet Muhammad: An Exegetical Analysis among Select Arab Intellectuals
The late 19th & early 20th century witnessed discussion on the covenants of the Prophet Muhammad especially in the Arab world, most notably, Egypt, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire among others. The study will focus on the writings of intellectuals / scholars of the time (Ahmed Zaki Pasha, Louis Cheiko and Na'um Shuqayr) who had contradictory opinions on the covenants of the prophet.
Shari’a Objectives for Civil Society
This workshop will discuss what Islamic Shari’a aims to achieve through its provisions, and will explain the major responsibilities in building an integrated human personality that would be able to participate in the renaissance procession. The workshop will also shed light on the importance of ethics and its relevance to religion. The workshop will be held every Monday of January 2022.
Selections from Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s Sawāniḥ
Love comes and goes, it has increase, decrease and perfection, and the lover has states within it. In the beginning he may deny it, then he may submit to it. Then he may be disgraced and again take to the path of denial. These states change according to the moment and the individual; sometimes love increases and the lover denies it, sometimes love decreases and the one who possesses it denies the decrease. For love must open the castle of the lover to have a house for itself within, so that the lover becomes tame and surrenders.
Selections from Ibn Turka al-Isfahānī’s Tamhīd al-qawā’id
Praise be to God who made the places obscured by the shadows of His magnifi cence, loci in which are disclosed the lights of His beauty, differentiating what is undifferentiated among the inherent properties (aḥkām); who made the forms of His Self-disclosures (tajalliyāt) places in which the suns of realities arise, completing what is universal among the blessings.
Al-Insān al-Kāmil: Doctrine and Practice
Sufi Metaphysics is composed of two essential dimensions-doctrine and method. Because the subject matter of metaphysics is the truth, which is one, these two dimensions inevitably intertwine and overlap, for they are symbiotic parts of a greater whole.
The Place of Prophecy in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy of Perception
For Mulla Sadra the station (maqam) and way - station (manzil) of every human being corresponds to the quality of his faculties of perception. In the fi nal mashhad of ash - Shawahid ar - rububiyya," On Prophethoods and Saint hoods", he outlines four way - stations of man which correspond to four levels of perception. In the first three levels, man perceives only through the faculties of sense, imagination (khayal) and estimation (wahm).