Search results
1 day ago · Fakhr-al-Din II (1572–1635) was a Druze prince and a leader of the Emirate of Chouf District in the governorate of Mount Lebanon. Maronite Abū Nādir al-Khāzin was one of his foremost supporters and served as Fakhr-al-Din's adjutant.
4 days ago · In March 1890 Naser al-Din Shah granted a concession to an Englishman for a 50-year monopoly over the distribution and exportation of tobacco. Iranians cultivated a variety of tobacco "much prized in foreign markets" that was not grown elsewhere, [ 49 ] and the arrangement threatened the job security of a significant portion of the ...
1 day ago · Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub[ a ] (c.1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, [ b ] was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
5 days ago · Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi distinguished between the ijma‘ of the Companions and that of others, saying rejecting the former would lead to disbelief, whereas rejecting the ijma‘ of others leads to deviance and not disbelief.
2 days ago · This as we have established is spoken of by the likes of Ibn Aqil al-Hanbali (d. 513H), and Ibn al-Jawzee (d. 597H), and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606H), and al-Maqrizi (d. 845H), centuries before Ibn Abd al-Wahhaab was even born.
5 days ago · Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, in his comprehensive tafsir "Mafatih al-Ghayb," offers a profound insight into why Allah begins the Quran with self-praise. He states:
3 days ago · Islam - Critiques, Theology, Aristotle: The critique of Aristotle that had begun in Muʿtazilī circles and had found a prominent champion in Abū Bakr al-Rāzī was provided with a more solid foundation in the 10th and 11th centuries by the Christian theologians and philosophers of Baghdad, who translated the writings of the ...
