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Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani. Abū Bakr, ‘Abd al-Qāhir ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (1009 – 1078 or 1081 AD [400 – 471 or 474 A.H.]); [ 1 ] nicknamed "Al-Naḥawī" (the grammarian), he was a renowned Persian [ 2 ] grammarian of the Arabic language, literary theorist of the Muslim Shafi'i, and a follower of al-Ash'ari.
Islam. Alam al-Jabarut (Arabic: عَالَم الْجَبَرُوت, romanized: ʿālam al-jabarūt "World of Power") [1] is a realm proposed in Islamic cosmology. According to Suhrawardi (1154–1191), this is the highest realm and denotes the place of God's presence. [2]: 189 Below alam al-jabarut lies alam al-malakut "World of Sovereignty ...
Islam. Ilm al-kalam [a] or ilm al-lahut, [b] often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (aqida). [2] It can also be defined as the science that studies the fundamental doctrines of Islamic faith (usul al-din), proving their validity, or refuting doubts regarding them. [3] Kalām was born out ...
Islam Nusantara is defined as an interpretation of Islam that takes into account local Indonesian customs in forming its fiqh. [ 2 ] It tends to express greater pluralism and moderation, opposition to fundamentalism, and a degree of syncretism with local traditions. In June 2015, Indonesian President Joko Widodo openly expressed his support for ...
Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, pronounced [kad͡ʒi ˈnod͡ʒɾul islam] ⓘ; 24 May 1899 [11 Jaistha 1306 Bengali]– 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, journalist, and musician. [ 8 ] He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a large body of poetry, music, messages, novels, and ...
Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations. [1] Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, Islamic art is a concept used first by Western art historians in ...
The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism.The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam".
The history of the arrival of Islam in Indonesia is somewhat unclear. [1] One theory states that Islam arrived directly from Arabia as early as the 9th century, during the time of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. Another theory credits Sufi travelers for bringing Islam in the 12th or 13th century, either from Gujarat in India or from Persia. [2]