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Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem: Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem: Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage Leiden: Brill, 2008, HC, 1070 pp, ISBN: 978 90 04 14948 9 This eighty-fifth volume in Brill's Handbook of Oriental Studies Series attempts to fulfill the long-standing need for an...

This earth a masjid?(The End Matters)(Essay)
June 22, 2009... The Prophet [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] recounts five things uniquely granted him in a fairly well-known tradition found in many collections of Hadith and transmitted variously by Jabir bin 'Abdullah [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] and Hudhayfa [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. The...

George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, HC, 315 pp, ISBN: 978-0-262-19557-7 When, where, and how did the Islamic scientific tradition begin? When, where and how did it reach its zenith? What did it accomplish? And when did...

Abu Salif Ahmad Ali al-Adani (tr.): The Secrets of Asceticism.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Abu Salif Ahmad Ali al-Adani (tr.): The Secrets of Asceticism Bristol: Amal Press, 2008, Pb, 143 pp, ISBN: 978-0-9552359-6-2 This is a partial translation of the celebrated Andalusian Qur'an commentator Abu 'Abd Allah al-Qurtubi's (d. 671/1273) manual on simple living entitled "The...

Why does ice float on the surface of water?(Essay)
June 22, 2009... The regular mail pouch that went with the caravan from KhwArazm to Bukhara on a certain spring day had a letter from AbC RayhAn al-Biruni for Ibn Sina. The letter continued their discussion from where it was left in the previous letter, but this time al-BirCni asked two additional questions:...