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Islamic Studies examines Islamic history, theology, law, philosophy, and culture. It includes Qur’anic studies, Hadith scholarship, jurisprudence (fiqh), and intellectual traditions within Islam. This category covers both classical sources and contemporary academic research.
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Gustave Le Bon's "La Civilisation des Arabes" was published in French in 1884 and is often translated as…
Bourdieu examines how Ibadite Islam shapes the social organization, daily life, and identity of the Mozabite people in…
Jami's Layli u Majnun is a Persian masnavi that retells one of the most celebrated love stories in…
Yūsuf u Zulaykhā is a Persian narrative poem (masnavi) composed by the celebrated Sufi poet Nur ad-Din Abd…
Qiṣṣah-hā-yi Jāmī is a collection of narrative tales drawn from the works of the Persian poet and Sufi…
The Lavāyiḥ, whose title means "Flashes" or "Gleams," is the more substantial and better-known of the two works…
The Tarjīʿ-band-i Jāmī stands as one of the most celebrated mystical poems in the Persian literary tradition, composed…
Jami opens his divan by praising God as the 'Originator of being' and the 'Opener of the door…
The Ghazaliyyāt-i Jāmī represents the collected lyric poetry in the ghazal form by Mawlānā Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān…
Inshā-yi Jāmī is a collection of Persian prose writings by the fifteenth-century poet, scholar, and Sufi master Nūr…
The Guzīdah-i Haft Awrang is an anthology drawn from the monumental poetic work Haft Awrang by the Persian…
Tuḥfat al-aḥrār is a Persian mystical mathnawi composed by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, a prominent Sufi master…
The Rubāʿiyāt-i Jāmī is a collection of quatrains composed by the celebrated Persian poet and Sufi mystic Nūr…
The Bahāristan is a Persian prose work composed by the renowned Sufi poet and scholar Nur al-Din Abd…
Sar rishtah-i ṭarīqah-ʾi khvājigān is a Persian Sufi treatise by Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī, a celebrated poet…
