Entries by simar

What is Tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi’l-Qurʾān?

Abstract: In an attempt to understand a well-known though often unexamined exegetical principle,this article offers a reading of the story of Joseph in light of two Quranic passages, namely 39:23and, most importantly, 95:4-6. What links these texts is the concept of beauty. In 39:23, theQuran is referred to as “the most beautiful discourse,” while 95:4 […]

APPROACHES TO PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE IN EARLY SUFISM – Mohammed Rustom

Abstract: “There is a famous tradition in Islam in which an unknown man, fully clad in white and evincing no signs of travel, approaches the Prophet Muhammad and begins to ask him several questions. Prior to his last question,  which has to do with eschatology, the man asks the Prophet to define three  terms: Islam, […]

A Critique of Evolutionary Theory

Abstract: The essays assembled in this book bring into focus a broad range of criticisms of the modem theory of evolution: logical, mathe­matical, physical, biological, religious, philosophical, and meta­physical. The arguments presented.

The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Abstract: To speak of creation or manifestation is to speak of polarization, of the manifold, of multiplicitywhose first stage is that primordial polarization between the two contending and complementaryprinciples, which are seen throughout cosmic manifestation and which in human life appear asthe male and female sexes. In relation to the Divine Unity all multiplicity is […]