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Welcome to TraditionalHikma.com!  This website is intended to provide a repository of articles and lectures by leading scholars whose works span the spectrum of all traditional branches of Islamic knowledge, from metaphysics to theology to Islamic music and poetry.

This site is structured in a way that first introduces the notion of Traditional Islam, its implications, and on what grounds it rejects in principle the secular tenants of modernism.  ‘Tradition’ in this case being the continuance of Islam from its Divine Origin, through the reality of the Prophet Muhammad (upon him be eternal Peace and Blessings) and passed on in an unbroken chain of transmission and dissemination through the temporal orders of time and space to the present, while at every moment being constantly connected to, and reinvigorated by that Divine Origin.  (See What is Traditional Islam?)

The website then bifurcates the Islamic sciences into what are known as the Intellectual Sciences (those branches of knowledge that can be known and verified through the processes of intellection and ratiocination) and the Transmitted Sciences (the branches of faith that are passed on in an unbroken chain from teacher to disciple, taking their source from the teachings of the Prophet of Islam (upon him be eternal Peace and Mercy), and ultimately back to God).

The next section introduces the principles and expositions on the Sacred Arts of Islam from the loftiest of the Islamic arts, the recitation of the Holy Quran, to calligraphy to architecture to poetry and music.

Finally, recognizing that most Muslims around the world no longer live in an insular environment of a traditional Islamic ambiance, a section is provided addressing various approaches to the study and understanding of the plurality of religions, ranging from perspectives of comparative theology to what is called Universalism or Perennialism, whose kernel is the transcendent Truth and Reality of all religious forms, but which can only be accessed through a particular religious form, in this case Islam.

The overarching structure of the website is designed to correspond to an overarching categorization of the many branches of the Islamic sciences.  However, the site is designed in such a way that visitors can access any section they find their soul and intellect are in need of.

Our prayer is that this website be of benefit to all seekers of Divine Truth and Beauty .  We ask God’s Forgiveness and Mercy for any shortcomings in this project, and pray for the greatest of gifts that He bestows, knowledge of Himself.  ~Ameen~

Latest Posts

“Ḥāl (State) in Sufism,” Encyclopedia of Islam Three (Brill)

Qur’anic terminology, translation, and the Islamic conception of religion – Maria M Dakake

Ibn Arabi Treatise on the Knowledge of the Night of Power and it’s timings – Pablo Beneito and Stephen Hirtenstein

“White Death: Ibn ‘Arabi on the Trials and Virtues of Hunger and Fasting,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 141, no. 3 (2021): 577-586. – Atif Khalil

Ibn al-‘Arabī: The Doorway to an Intellectual Tradition

Editors’ Introduction to Mysticism and Ethics in Islam

زبدة الحقائق لعين القضاة الهمداني (تحقيق محمد رستم)

Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, On Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration. Kitāb dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ʿujb. Book XXIX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, translation with introduction and notes by Mohammed Rustom.

Review of Yousef Casewit’s “The Mystics of al Andalus” – Michele Petrone, Medieval Encounters 26 (2020)

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A Treatise on Practical and Theoretical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate

Theo-Fani: ‘Ayn al-Qudat and the Fire of Love – Mohammed Rustom

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2022 Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture: Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike

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Select Articles on Islamic Mysticism

  • Review of Rizvi, Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics

  • Review of Papan-Matin, Beyond Death

  • Review of Nasr and Aminrazavi (eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia

  • ’Aqida (Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education, 2021)

  • Review of Cheetham, The World Turned Inside Out

  • Review of Lings, Mediaeval Sufi Poetry

  • Review of Kaukua, Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy

  • Review of Nasr, An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines

  • Review of Kalin, Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy

Select Scholarly Articles

  • Avicenna on Musical Perception

  • Avicenna, Razi, and Tusi on the Incorruptibility of the Human Soul

  • Avicenna’s Proof of the Existence of God as a Necessarily Existent Being

  • Ibn Sina on Floating Man Arguments

  • Ibn Sina’s Burhan al-Siddiqin

  • Shining of the Lights and the Veil of the Sights in the Secrets Bright

  • From the Necessary Existent to God

  • Inception and Ibn ’Arabi

  • Time,Space,and the Objectivity of Ethical Norms in the Teachings of Ibn al-’Arabi

  • Liberalism and the American Muslim Predicament

  • Response to Kecia Ali

  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr Response to Thomas Dean’s review of Knowledge and the Sacred

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