This book is a manual for researchers, authors, scholars, and others interested in Islamic literature, culture, and civilization. It is an attempt to clarify terms, phrases, words, and concepts whose meanings have become distorted due to faulty translations and transliterations.

Toward Islamic English (Islamization of Knowledge Vol 3)

Isma'Il Raji Al Faruqi

Religion & Spirituality

Intl Inst of Islamic Thought

In dealing with any aspect of Islamic civilization, its final raison d'etre and creative base must be seen as resting on the Qur' n. Islamic culture is, in fact, a "Qur' nic culture"; for its definitions, its structures, its goals, and its methods for execution of those goals are all derived from that series of revelations from God to the Prophet Muhammad. Without that revelation, the culture could not have been generated; without that revelation, there could have been neither an Islamic religion, an Islamic state, an Islamic philosophy, an Islamic law, an Islamic society, nor an Islamic political or economic organization. Just as surely as these aspects of Islamic culture may be rightly seen as Qur' nic in basis and motivation, in implementation and goal, the arts of Islamic civilization should also be viewed as aesthetic expressions of similar derivation and realization. Yes, the Islamic arts are indeed Qur' nic arts. How then are the Islamic arts to be seen as "Qur' nic" expressions in color, in line, in movement, in shape, and in sound? This is the subject of this work.

The Arts of Islamic Civilization

International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

Without a doubt, the Qur'an is beautiful, indeed, the most beautiful literary composition the Arabic language has ever known. It signified the divine presence itself and commanded the greatest honor. The proof that the Qur'an was the word of God devolved upon the Qur'an itself. The Qur'an, Muhammad claimed with Qur'anic approval, indeed dictation, is so beautiful that it is inimitable; it is so inimitable that it is miraculous. It is therefore not the work of humans but of God. This character of the Qur'an is called its i'jaz. The Sunnah as concretization of the vision, or materialization of the ideal, translated theory into reality. In it, the values of Islam were given form and became alive. They throbbed with moving power. The Sunnah supplied the missing link between thinking and doing, between ideational apperception and action, between thought and life and history.

The Qur'an and the Sunnah (Occasional Papers Series)

Lois Lamya Al Faruqi

International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIY)

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Toward Islamic English (Islamization of Knowledge Vol 3)

The Arts of Islamic Civilization

The Qur'an and the Sunnah (Occasional Papers Series)