152 results for “tradition”
...r ancestry through the line of Ibrahim and Ismail. Islamic tradition preserves a remarkable account surrounding the marriage: Ab...
...ly generations; the twelfth is most widely cited in popular tradition, while scholars including Ibn Hazm have argued for the nint...
...red months — specifically Dhul-Qa'dah — when all combat was traditionally forbidden by Arab custom. The violation of this ancient...
...mbed Abu Qubays hill and called out publicly in verse — the traditional Arab method of shaming a wrongdoer — naming al-As ibn Wa'...
...ssistance from his uncle Abu Talib — and Abu Talib gave the traditional marriage speech at the ceremony. Khadijah's decision to ...
...a public vantage point — and called out "Ya sabahah!" — the traditional alarm cry that summoned people to an emergency. The Quray...
...hrough which the greatest transmission channel of prophetic tradition entered the Muslim ummah. His conversion and subsequent ret...
...protection of a just ruler who would eventually, in Islamic tradition, accept Islam privately before his death. The Prophet ﷺ lat...
...letely Khadijah lived in his memory. Her station in Islamic tradition is among the highest of any woman: the Prophet ﷺ named her ...
...as ever migrated for the sake of their faith stands in this tradition.
...en in poverty — became a permanent ethical ideal in Islamic tradition, enshrined by the Quran and embodied by the generation that...
...inning. The Prophet ﷺ elaborated the practice in prophetic tradition: the suhur (pre-dawn meal) as a blessing, the hastening of ...
...d Quranic verse in the daily practice of Muslims across all traditions — recited after every prayer, at bedtime, as protection be...
... of Paradise. The marriage itself became a model in Islamic tradition: a union arranged by the Prophet ﷺ on the basis of characte...
...ed the child Hasan — a name with no prior precedent in Arab tradition, chosen (according to some narrations) under divine suggest...
...n before it, the name Husayn had no prior precedent in Arab tradition and was, according to some narrations, divinely suggested. ...
... raka'at before execution became the model for what Islamic tradition calls the martyr's final prayer, a practice he established....
...anu Qurayza would themselves have recognized from their own tradition — making it the most theologically resonant of the three tr...
...he title Jafar al-Tayyar (Jafar the Flyer) that the Islamic tradition carries to this day. The expedition to Mutah permanently ma...
...Nurayn (Possessor of Two Lights) that he carries in Islamic tradition. The Prophet ﷺ reportedly said: 'If I had a third daughter,...
...dentify him with the figure known as Enoch in the Abrahamic tradition — though the Quran does not give extensive narrative detail...
...e name of his father, and Hud himself is revered in Islamic tradition as one of the Arab prophets — alongside Salih, Shuaib, and ...
...themselves." This blessing encompassed the entire prophetic tradition of the Israelites — from Yaqub (Jacob) to Yusuf (Joseph), M...
...s of trial, endurance, and divine mercy in all of prophetic tradition. Ayyub was tested with an extraordinary degree of hardship...
...Ezekiel or the righteous king Dhul-Kifl mentioned in Jewish tradition, while others caution against such identifications without ...
...lars as corresponding to the prophet Elijah in the biblical tradition. His mission was to call the Israelites back to the worship...
...es him among the best of Allah's servants. In the biblical tradition, Elisha was the successor and disciple of Elijah. He perfor...
...lah, and admission of one's own error — is known in Islamic tradition as Ayat al-Karim, and scholars consider it among the most p...
... across the region carrying the message. Islamic historical tradition and the broader historical record both point to them travel...
...al changes, the general theological direction of the Gospel tradition was shaped not by faithful transmission of Isa's words but ...
...rd tawhid. No matter how thoroughly a community's religious tradition becomes corrupted, some individuals in every generation rec...
...slamic history: the devout monotheist formed by a corrupted tradition who nonetheless preserves enough of the original truth to r...
...tretched across decades, continents, and multiple religious traditions. His story, narrated in his own words and preserved in the...
...thing of the authentic light of Isa's message even within a tradition that had become largely corrupted at the institutional leve...
...who represented the final surviving bearer of the authentic tradition from Isa عليه السلام. Salman served this last bishop faith...
...ory of Salman's enslavement is not presented in the Islamic tradition as a mere hardship to be glossed over — it is understood as...
...n 5 AH. This military strategy, drawn from Persian military tradition, proved decisive in defending Medina against the Qurayshi-l...
...d Christian Arab secretaries and drew on the administrative traditions of both Byzantium and Persia. His reign of nearly twenty y...
...built over the sacred rock from which, according to Islamic tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the heavens during the Ni...
...el did not pursue aggressively. European historiography has traditionally presented this battle as a decisive turning point that ...
... effective formation (the kurdus system) that departed from traditional tribal organization. When the Abbasid forces under Abdull...
...roduce original works. The institution embodied the Islamic tradition of seeking knowledge, though later scholars distinguished b...
...efuting theological innovations, defined the Athari-Hanbali tradition for centuries to come. Though born after the fall of the Ab...
...ant controversy. Al-Ghazali had critiqued the philosophical tradition in his Tahafut al-Falasifa, and Ibn Rushd responded with hi...
...me of his philosophical positions contrary to Islam. Muslim tradition honors his medical contributions while maintaining the Atha...
...r system to Europe. His contributions exemplify the Islamic tradition of practical scholarship oriented toward solving real-world...
...His Messenger. The battle is a profound reminder in Islamic tradition that disobedience to command brings consequences even upon ...
...ladin's chivalrous conduct became legendary even in Western tradition.
...r on horseback — a miraculous crossing according to Islamic tradition — and entered the city without significant resistance. In t...
...15 years until Caliph al-Mutawakkil ended it, restoring the traditional Sunni position.
... Yusuf al-Kindi, the first major philosopher in the Islamic tradition, died in Baghdad. He integrated Greek philosophy with Islam...
...eloped a middle path that used rational arguments to defend traditional Sunni beliefs. The Ash'ari school became the dominant the...
...markand. His theological school became the dominant creedal tradition among Hanafi scholars, particularly in Central Asia, the In...
...d. His Sawanih is a seminal work on divine love in the Sufi tradition.
... made him one of the most widely read scholars in the Sunni tradition. He beautifully combined scholarly rigor with spiritual dep...
...nts. His intellectual legacy shaped the Deoband and Barelvi traditions.
... his student Rashid Rida, Abduh sought to reconcile Islamic tradition with modern thought. Their journal al-Manar and Abduh's edu...
A renowned ascetic and hadith transmitter who, according to tradition, was a highway robber before his dramatic repentance upon h...
...rned to Sunni orthodoxy and developed a rational defense of traditional creed that became dominant across the Muslim world.
...Mufti of Baghdad who drew from virtually every major tafsir tradition.
...on Jami at-Tirmidhi. An Indian scholar of the Ahl al-Hadith tradition.
A distinguished female hadith scholar from the Hanbali tradition who narrated from major authorities of her time.
...i of Egypt, Shafi'i jurist and Azhari scholar known for his traditional Islamic scholarship and engagement with contemporary issu...
...der of Dar al-Mustafa in Tarim, one of the most influential traditional Islamic learning centers in the world.
...cholar from a distinguished scholarly family, known for his traditional Islamic teaching and work in counter-extremism.
...oman Caliphate and a fierce defender of the Hanafi-Maturidi tradition in the modern era.
...tinian Shafi'i judge and prolific author of works defending traditional Islamic scholarship and collecting prophetic praises.
...cal editions of classical hadith texts and his advocacy for traditional scholarship.
...hor of major English-language works on hadith and prophetic tradition.
...li ibn Abi Talib, one of the four greatest women in Islamic tradition.
...aelites into the Holy Land. Considered a prophet in Islamic tradition.
... AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition the ancestor of the Semitic peoples including the Arabs and...
... AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition as the ancestor of the African and Hamitic peoples.
... AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition as the ancestor of the Turkic, European, and northern peopl...
One of the four archangels in Islamic tradition, named explicitly in the Quran alongside Jibril, responsibl...
...on of Urwa ibn al-Zubayr and primary transmitter of Aisha's traditions through the famous golden chain al-Zuhri-al-Araj.
...hafidh of hadith and settled in Madinah, narrating numerous traditions including one on the correct form of prayer.
...resent the earliest systematic effort to preserve prophetic traditions in literary form. He died in 150 AH.
... al-Saghir, and Tadrib al-Rawi remain standard textbooks in traditional Islamic education worldwide.
...d al-Malik (d. 105 AH). He is remembered in Islamic ethical tradition for his exchange with Abu Hanifah, whom he pressured to aut...
...regard by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the entire classical Hanbali tradition.
...outward sharia with inward states were foundational to that tradition.
...licly in Cairo on issues of tasawwuf. His works are used in traditional Islamic education today, though his spiritual framework i...
...spanning 30 volumes and drawing on all classical exegetical traditions. A Hanafi jurist with Salafi-influenced aqeedah positions.
...systematic methodology that influenced the Salafi scholarly tradition.
...al-Muhtaj, the definitive Shafi'i reference in the Egyptian tradition.
...fi Sharh al-Tuhfah, a key commentary in the Moroccan Maliki tradition.
...olar of Kufa; key transmitter of Abdullah ibn Masud's legal tradition.
...n Arabia and founded an influential spiritual and scholarly tradition.
...Abu Hanifah and key transmitter of the Kufa jurisprudential tradition.
...reformer who advocated for direct Quran-based guidance over traditional authority.
...er of Hasan al-Basri, who shared in the scholarly and pious tradition of that distinguished family.
...ough whom he transmitted many of the companion's exegetical traditions.
...aqafi, who transmitted from his family's chain of prophetic tradition.
...uhaddith and prolific narrator, the foremost transmitter of traditions from Thabit al-Bunani and Anas ibn Malik, and a major figu...
...written form, a foundational figure in the Hijazi scholarly tradition.
...bn Yasar, known for his piety and transmission of prophetic traditions.
...st figures involved in the formal codification of prophetic traditions.
...mitted his father's teachings and helped preserve the Masud tradition of Quranic and legal knowledge.
..., a prolific narrator and juristic authority in the Medinan tradition.
...fe Maymuna bint al-Harith, a reliable narrator of prophetic traditions.
...o became one of the foremost transmitters of Syrian Islamic tradition.
...of the Prophet and was a major transmitter of the prophetic tradition in the Levant.
...s, preserving the juristic opinions and hadith transmission traditions of the early Yemeni and Hijazi schools. An essential prima...
... organized in a unique thematic arrangement rather than the traditional chapter-based format. Ibn Hibban applied strict criteria ...
...s is the most prominent tafsir from the Ash'ari theological tradition. Ar-Razi brings extensive philosophical, rational, and scie...
...idered the greatest work of comparative fiqh in the Shafi'i tradition. An-Nawawi completed only a portion before his death, but t...
...first texts memorized by students of aqeedah in the Hanbali tradition.
... most balanced work on Islamic spirituality from the Athari tradition.
...tent worship. Ibn al-Qayyim draws from the Quran, prophetic traditions, and the wisdom of the Salaf to create a deeply moving acc...
...fications and remains the standard advanced grammar text in traditional Islamic education. Ibn Aqil's commentary is the most wide...
..., Quranic examples, and graded exercises. The work made the traditionally difficult science of Arabic rhetoric accessible to stud...
...jurisprudence organized by legal principles rather than the traditional chapter format. Al-Kasani rearranged his teacher's work t...
...yer, fasting, zakat, hajj). Popular as a beginner's text in traditional Islamic education, it presents the essential Hanafi posit...
...details. Widely used as an intermediate Hanafi fiqh text in traditional study circles and seminaries.
...text, with its numerous commentaries, forms the backbone of traditional theological education in the Maliki-Ash'ari tradition.
...entary has been the standard textbook for Arabic grammar in traditional Islamic education for centuries.
...eginning their study of Hanbali fiqh and its rich scholarly tradition.
...or sins in Islam, drawing on Quranic warnings and prophetic traditions. Adh-Dhahabi lists each sin with its evidence and conseque...
...especially Tafsir Ibn Kathir and the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition. Mufti Shafi Usmani addresses contemporary issues while rem...
...ecame one of the most studied supplementary tafsir works in traditional Islamic education.
...lowed in the Hadrami, Southeast Asian, and Egyptian Shafi'i traditions.
...ce that reorganizes fiqh by topic rather than following the traditional chapter order. Al-Kasani's systematic approach and clear ...
...explanations of hadiths and their legal implications in the tradition of al-Suyuti's prolific scholarship.
...organized Hanafi law thematically rather than following the traditional chapter order, making it more accessible. The work provid...
...al reference and a defense of the Ash'ari-Shafi'i scholarly tradition, containing important theological discussions alongside the...
...balanced middle path between excessive rationalism and pure traditionalism. The work covers God's existence, attributes, propheth...
... philosophical precision. This work shaped the entire later tradition of usul al-fiqh, and its logical methodology became standar...
...ecame the most studied text in the field within the Shafi'i tradition. As-Subki compresses the key positions of al-Amidi and othe...
..., the most detailed work of comparative fiqh in the Shafi'i tradition.
...Quranic and Sunnah-based remedies grounded in the prophetic tradition.
...comparable system of historical verification in the Western tradition.
... a particular metaphysical commitment — and why the Islamic tradition's insistence on the comprehensiveness of divine guidance is...
... to the science of hadith criticism (mustalah al-hadith) in traditional Islamic scholarship. It explains the terminology and meth...
The intellectual tradition of the Ottoman Empire, from Sheyhulislam fatwas to advances...
...bu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari that became the dominant Sunni kalam tradition.
The adoption, adaptation, and debate over Aristotelian logic in Islamic scholarship and its role in the religious sciences.
How the Quran was preserved through oral transmission and written manuscripts, from the Prophet's time to the earliest surviving copies.
From the pre-Islamic odes to the Sufi poetry of Rumi and Iqbal, the role of poetry in Muslim civilization.
From kuttab to madrasah to university, the historical structure of Islamic education, the ijazah system, and the holistic curriculum of the classical era.
...edge and action, the characteristics of the wise in Islamic tradition, and how to cultivate it.
...mphasis on observation and reflection inspired a scientific tradition that shaped astronomy, chemistry, medicine, and mathematics...
The unbroken tradition of memorizing the entire Quran, the methods used, the spiri...
...alah, and their specific virtues mentioned in the prophetic traditions.
...ents by its emphasis on following authenticated hadith over traditional madhab positions and its rejection of much of popular Sou...
...ements of Islam, Neo-Platonism, Gnosticism, and pre-Islamic traditions. The Druze do not accept converts, do not follow the Five ...
A syncretic religious tradition originating in Anatolia (Turkey) in the medieval period, co...