• Lukmaan (Luqman)
    • an) Name The Surah has been named Luqman after Luqman the Sage whose admonitions to his son have been related in vv. 12-19 of this Surah. Period of Revelation A perusal of the subject matter shows that it was sent down i...
    • AL-FARGHANI (Alfraganus)
    • s) (C. 860) Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, born in Farghana, Transoxiana, was one of the most distinguished astronomers in the service of al-Mamun and his successors. He wrote "Elements of As...
    • QATAR
    • TAR  Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s,Qatar transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. Du...
    • Damascus University
    • niversity Damascus University, the largest in Syria, dates back to the beginning of the last century. Today in its ninth decade, the University is still one of the most important centers of Arab culture in the Middle...
    • Rum
    • Rum (The [East] Romans) Name The Surah takes its name" Al-Rum" from the second verse in which the words ghulib-at-ir-Rum (The Byzantines have been defeated) have occurred. Period of Revelation The period of the...
    • The Demand of the Quran
    • r'an for a Direct Confrontation The Noble Qur'an was revealed in the Arabic language, one of the richest languages in the world from the point of view of firmness of structure and abundance of vocabulary. It descended like...
    • Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq
    • raq  (970 in (possibly) Khwarazm (now Kara-Kalpakskaya, Uzbekistan)-1036 in (probably) Ghazna (now Ghazni , Afghanistan)) Abu Nasr Mansur was a native of Gilan which is mentioned in The Regions of the World, a Per...
    • BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY
    • ITY http://www.boun.edu.tr/index_eng.html   Robert College was founded in Istanbul, Turkey, by Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Rheinlander Robert...
    • Al-Ankabut (The Spider)
    • er) Name The Surah takes its name from verse 41 in which the word Ankabut (Spider) has occurred. Period of Revelation Verses 56 to 60 clearly show that this Surah was sent down a little before the migration to Habash and th...
    • What Is The Challenge Of The Quran
    • 'an  With Respect To Arabic Prose & Poetry?M S M Saifullah,cAbd ar-Rahmân Robert Squires & Muhammad Ghoniem This article is devoted to deal with one aspect of the Qur'anic challenge of produce a surah like it....
    • Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muadh Al-Jayyani
    • ani (989 in Cordoba- after 1079 in possibly Jaén, Andalusia) Little is known of al-Jayyani's life. Even the identification of al-Jayyani the mathematician with al-Jayyani the Spanish scholar who was born inCordoba in 989...
    • PAKISTAN
    • The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with two sections west and east) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved. A third war between these countries in 1971 resulted...
    • Beirut Arab University
    • ity http://www.bau.edu.lb / History Beirut, the Lebanese metropolis, the meeting point of ancient civilizations, enjoys a special geographic location overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. This location distinguishes t...
    • Al-Qasas (Stories)
    • ies) Name The Surah takes its name from verse 25 in which the word Al-Qasas occurs. Lexically qasas means to relate events in their proper sequence. Thus from the view- point of the meaning too this word can be a suitable t...
    • Between Grammar and Rhetoric
    • oric (Balâghah):  A Look at Qur'ân 2:217 Mustansir Mir I. The Problem The Qur'anic verse 2:217 raises a problem which has been exercising the minds of Muslim scholars. The problem has to do with the case-endin...
    • Al-Abbas ibn Said Al-Jawhari
    • hari (About 800 in possibly Baghdad, Iraq- about 860 in possibly Baghdad, Iraq) We know little of al-Jawhari's life except that he was associated with the remarkable House of Wisdom that was set up in Baghdad by the Caliph...
    • OMAN
    • MAN In 1970, QABOOS bin Said Al Said ousted his father and has ruled as sultan ever since. His extensive modernization program has opened the country to the outside world and has preserved a long-standing political a...
    • Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
    • ology http://www.buet.ac.bd/ Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, abbreviated as BUET, is one of the most prestigious institutions for higher studies in the country. About five thousand students are pu...
    • 27. Al-Naml (The Ants)
    • ts) Name The Sura takes its name from the phrase wadin-naml which occurs in verse 18 implying that it is a Sura in which the story of Al-Naml (the Ant) has been related. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the s...
    • Collection and Transmission of the Qur
    • Qur’an Shehzad Saleem  The Qur’an we have with us today is the very one – word for word -- which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (sws). It was collected both in the form of a book and learnt by heart by many compan...
    • Shams al-Din ibn Ashraf Al-Samarqandi
    • ndi (About 1250 in Samarqand, Uzbekistan, Russia- about 1310) Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi's full name is Shams al-din Muhammad ibn Ashraf al-Husayni al-Samarqandi. Nothing is known of al-Samarqandi's life except that he compo...
    • NIGER
    • GER Not until 1993, 35 years after independence from France, did Niger hold its first free and open elections. A 1995 peace accord ended a five-year Tuareg insurgency in the north. Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by...
    • Marrakesh
    • esh Marrakech is not only a fantastic city, it is also a symbol of the Morocco that once was, and which still survives here. The streets of the old and pink city have been too narrow to allow the introduction of cars, an...
    • BAQAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    • SITY http://www.baqai.edu.pk The Baqais (Dr.Farid and Dr.Zahida) both medical practitioners and surgeons by profession, after completing their medical education in Pakistan and Great Britain, started practicing th...
    • Shuara (Poets)
    • (Poets) Name The Surah takes its name from verse 224 in which the word Ash-Shu'ara occurs. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the style show, and the traditions confirm, that it was revealed during the middle...
    • Quran-article
    • al Harmony in the Thought,  Mood and Structure of Surah Fâtihah Mustansir Mir The opening Surah of the Qur'an is generally regarded as consisting of seven verses. There is, however, disagreement on whether the ba...
    • Abul-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yunus
    • Yunus (950 inEgypt- 1009 in Fustat, Egypt) Ibn Yunus's full name is Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi. As the name indicates, his great-grandfather was called Yunus, his grandfather was Ahmad,...
    • MOROCCO
    • CCO Morocco's long struggle for independence fromFrance ended in 1956. The internationalized city ofTangier was turned over to the new country that same year.Morocco virtually annexed Western Sahara during the late 19...
    • Kabul
    • bul Kabul city (1997 est. pop. 1,500,000), is the capital of Afghanistan and its largest city and economic and cultural center, on the KabulRiver. It is strategically located in a high narrow valley, wedged between mountain...
    • Bahauddin Zakariya University
    • sity Multan, Pakistan http://www.bzu.edu.pk Multan always remained a centre of educational activities. Bahauddin  Zakariya ( 1172 A.D. - 1262 A.D.) a Muslim religious scholar and saint established a school of h...
    • Al-Furqan (The Standard)
    • rd) Name The Surah takes its name "Al-Furqan" from the first verse. Though it is symbolic like the names of many other Surahs it has a close relation to its subject matter. Period of Revelation It appear...
    • Ijaz, Grammarians
    • ians & Jews M S M Saifullah I have been researching on the topic of I'jaz (or inimitability) of the Qur'an giving more attention to what is there in the Orientalists' books. The information that is available in these b...
    • Marmaduke Pickthall
    • all (1875 - 1936) He was born William Pickthall in 1875 in London, to an Anglican clergyman, and spent his formative years in rural Suffolk. He was contemporary of Winston Churchill atHarrow, the famous private school....
    • Zaydiyyah
    • Zaydiyyah is a Shiite school of law which, of all the groups in Shia, is closest to the Sunni tradition. The Zaydis are principally distinguished from other Shiite groups in their conception of the nature of the Imam...
    • MAURITANIA
    • NIA Independent fromFrance in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the formerSpanish Sahara (nowWestern Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking i...
    • Ataturk University
    • ity http://www.atauni.edu.tr/english/eindex.htm Ataturk University was established in accordance with the wish of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who is founder of Modern Turkey. As early as 1937, Ataturk wanted to have a uni...
    • Condolence on the Sad demise of Fatima
    • The Holy Prophet said: "Who ever injures (bodily or sentimentally) Fatimah, injures me; and whoever injures me injures Allah; and whoever injures Allah practices unbelief....
    • Nur (Light)
    • t) Name This Surah takes its name An Nur from verse 35. Period of Revelation The consensus of opinion is that it was sent down after the Campaign against Bani al-Mustaliq and this is confirmed by vv. 11-20 that deal ...
    • On The Sources of a Story of Cain and Abel
    • Cain & Abel in the Quran M S M Saifullah, Mansur Ahmed, Jason Hannan & Elias Karim 1. Introduction The Reverend W. St. Clair Tisdall in his book The Original Sources of the Quran wanted to show that Muhammad (P...
    • Abu Kamil Shuja ibn Aslam ibn Muhammad ibn Shuja
    • Shuja (about 850 in (possibly) Egypt - about 930) Abu Kamil Shuja is sometimes known as al-Hasib al-Misri, meaning the calculator from Egypt. Very little is known about Abu Kamil's life - perhaps even this is an exagger...
    • Hanbali School (Hanbaliyyah)
    • The Hanbali School is the fourth orthodox school of law within Sunni Islam. It derives its decrees from the Quran and the Sunnah, which it places above all forms of consensus, opinion or inference. The school accepts a...
    • MAYOTTE
    • OTTE    Mayotte was ceded to France along with the other islands of the Comoros group in 1843. It was the only island in the archipelago that voted in 1974 to retain its link with France and forego independence...
    • Multan
    • tan Location: Multan Division lies between north latitude 29'-22' and 30'-45 and east longitude 71'-4' and 72'-4'55/Pakistan. It is located in a bend created by five confluent rivers. The Sutlej separates it from Ba...
    • Ankara University
    • sity http://www.ankara.edu.tr/english/index.php Brief History Ankara University was founded by Atatürk himself in order to set foundation for his teachings and revolutions on which those would get s...
    • Abu Abdallah Yaish ibn Ibrahim Al-Umawi
    • awi (About 1400 in possibly Andalusia, Spain- 1489 in possibly Damascus, Syria) Al-Umawi's full name is Abu Abdallah Yaish ibn Ibrahim ibn Yusuf ibn Simak al-Umawi. There are clear problems with his date of birth and death...
    • Muminun (Believers)
    • rs) Name The surah takes its name Al-Mu'minun from the first verse. Period of Revelation Both its style and theme indicate that it was revealed during the middle stage of Prophethood at Mecca. Reading between the lines on...
    • The Reality of Miracle
    • e Reality of Miracle:  According to the Qur'an. Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i The Qur'an reasserts the occurrence of miracle an unusual preternatural phenomenon, which shows the authority of metaphysical forces over th...
    • Shafii School (Shafiiyyah)
    • Shafiiyyah was the third school of Islamic jurisprudence. According to the Shafii school the paramount sources of legal authority are the Quran and the Sunnah. Of less authority are the Ijma of the ...
    • Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI)
    • UI) n xstyle="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: tahoma"> www.alakhawayn.ma PO Box 104 Hassan II Avenue, 53000 IFRANE, Morocco n xstyle="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: tahoma"> Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AU...
    • Hajj
    • Hajj (Pilgrimage) Name This Surah takes its name from v. 27. Period of Revelation As this Surah contains the characteristics of both the Makki and the Madani Surahs the commentators have differed as to its per...