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NewsDr Nuha Al-Shaar presented a paper on The Ritualisation of Food and Table-talk in Arabic Traditions at a conference organised by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).
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Article“And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by night” Mathew Arnold leaves us with these grim thoughts, in ending thus his...
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InterviewsThis lecture by Dr Stephen Burge explores aspects of the supernatural in Prophet Mohammed’s life, using material found in the biographies of the Prophet and in the hadith Literature. Dr Burge argues that the presence...
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ArticleThis is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Muslim Almanac: The Reference Work on History, Faith and Culture, and Peoples of Islam published by Gale Research Inc. in 1995. The debate...
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ArticleAkhlaq , the plural form of khuluq , refers to innate disposition or character and, by extension in Muslim thought, to ethics. In the Qur’an the term is used to refer to Prophet Muhammad’s exemplary...
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ArticleMany societies of the Muslim world, for all their rich traditions of diversity and generosity, have lately fallen prey to ugly sectarian division. Communities that have long been part of the larger Islamic world and...
