God and Man in The Quran

God and Man in The Quran By prof. Toshihiko Izutsu. Izutsu is considered one of the greatest scholars in Qur'anic linguistics and semantics that ever lived. His structuralistic approach has opened new fields into Qur'anic sciences. This study is Izutsu's masterpiece and focuses on the main concept in the Qur'anic worldview and how they explain the relationship between...

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Major Themes of the Qur’an

Major Themes of the Qur’an by prof.Fazlur Rahman In this classic work, Rahman unravels the Qur’an’s complexities on themes such as God, society, revelation, and prophecy with the deep attachment of a Muslim educated in Islamic schools and the clarity of a scholar who taught for decades in the West. “Generations of scholars have profited from [Rahman’s] pioneering...

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What Test-tube babies According to Islam?

Increasingly sophisticated technology of modern medicine. One of a growing trend today is the phenomenon of in vitro fertilization. Indeed, this technology has been pioneered by PC Steptoe and RG Edwards in 1977. Until now, many couples who have difficulty obtaining the child, try to use IVF technology. IVF is known as in vitro fertilization or in English is known as in...

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The all-out hypocrisy of Arab League and the West

Kourosh Ziabari Salem-News.com 94 Yemenis were killed and over 800 injured since UN Resolution 2014 was issued... Courtesy: politicsontoast.wordpress.com (TEHRAN) - After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the United States, the resurgence of violence in Egypt and the increasing...

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Avicenna [Ibn Sina] The Great Philosopher from Islam

Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name “Avicenna.” He is probably the most significant philosopher in the Islamic tradition and arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era. Born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 980, he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major work the Canon (al-Qanun...

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Biography of Averrous [Ibn Rusyd]

Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd, better known in the Latin West as Averroes, lived during a unique period in Western intellectual history, in which interest in philosophy and theology was waning in the Muslim world and just beginning to flourish in Latin Christendom. Just fifteen years before his birth, the great critic of Islamic philosophy, al-Ghazzali (1058-1111),...

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