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What’s the Fourth Kingdom in Daniel?
Bibliography to add Context Basically in Daniel 2 you have 4 statues symbolized as world empires that dominate history. Represented by the head of gold, explicitly identified as King Nebuchadnezzar’s empire (Daniel 2:37–38). Depicted as the chest and arms of silver, an inferior kingdom that succeeded Babylon (Daniel 2:39; Medo-Persia). Symbolized by the belly and…
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Four Oldest Latin Quotations of the Qu’ran (Burman)
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List of Qu’ranic Manuscripts in Spain (Wiegers)
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Qu’ran in Spanish Philippines (Wiegers)
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Muslims in Christian Spain (Wiegers)
According to Khalīl, then, it is reprehensible (makrūh) for someone to recite the Qur’an in a non-Arabic language (Ar. aʿjamī), [even] if that person is able to do so. Thus, it seems that the Malikite chief qadi of Cairo expresses himself in the same way as his predecessor. He seems to say that it is…
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Qu’ran in Iberia (Wiegers)
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Ibn Taymiyyah & Utilitarianism
Drinking wine can signal: “I don’t do evil”. Ibn Taymiyyah (died 1382 AD) was an Islamic scholar against the consumption of wine. But when he saw Mongols drinking wine, he did not want to interrupt them because drinking wine prevented them from killing/stealing/plundering.
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Ibn Taymiyya on Imāmī Shīʿism in his Minhāj al-sunna al-nabawiyya (Prof. Vilozny)
Article Although Ibn Taymiyyaʼs opinions on the Shīʿa can be inferred also from several earlier texts (Hoover 2018), his choice in Minhāj al-sunna to refute one by one al-Ḥillīʼs arguments in Minhāj al-karāma, resulted in a systematic work in which Ibn Tay miyyaʼs conception of Imāmī Shīʿism is given unprecedented elaboration. Along the lines of…
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Ibn Taymiyyah as Avicennan (Prof. Adem)
Article the notion of Ibn Taymiyya being influenced by Peripatetic philosophy is a topic long familiar to his modern critics in the Muslim world, from Muhammad Za : ¯hid al-Kawtharı¯ (d. 1951) to Sa ( ¯ıd Ramada: ¯n al-Bu¯: tı¯(d. 2013). Ibn Taymiyya’s bold but generally underappreciated contention that God is eternally active as Creator,…
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Ibn Taymiyyah & Creatio ex Nihilo
While arguing that there is no creation ex nihilo (creation from nothing), Ibn Taymiyya used both Hud 7 and Fussilet 11 from the Quran, Sahih Muslim hadith 2653b and, interestingly, the expression in Genesis 1:1-2 in the Torah: