educational aspect of Islam as a complete process of teaching and learning knowledge based on Allah's Divine Guidance. Allah is the One who bestows knowledge and wisdom to whom He pleases. Successful are those whom Allah gives knowledge and wisdom. Allah the Exalted says: “He grants wisdom ...
Accepting the contention of Eristosthenes and other Greek geographers that the earth is round, the Arabs established correctly its circumference and measured quite accurately the length of terrestial degrees. They devised tables of latitude and longitude of places throughout the world, and worked out...
He also completed two Masters Degrees – Master of Commerce and Master of Applied Finance. Prior to his teaching career, Dr. Zeitun worked in the banking industry in different departments such as Foreign Currency department, Facilities department and finally as a supervisor of the investment unit ...
We find a very explicit description of a trajectory of deepening absorption during contemplative prayer in a teaching attributed to the founder of the Hasidic movement, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (18th CE): In prayer, one must place all of one’s energy into the words. To do so, one proc...
This paper will examine Muslim women’s engagement in Islamic scholarship by reviewing the foundational source of Islamic knowledge while referencing Somali female activists I interviewed in my 2017 published thesis. In particular, Somali women’s active