The Faith of IslamTrübner, 1880 - 269 pages |
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... historical or logical sequence . For a year after the Prophet's death nothing seems to have been done ; but then the battle of Yemana took place in which a very large number of the best Qurán reciters were slain . Omar took fright at ...
... historical or logical sequence . For a year after the Prophet's death nothing seems to have been done ; but then the battle of Yemana took place in which a very large number of the best Qurán reciters were slain . Omar took fright at ...
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... history of a country - all those considerations , in fact , which are held in the West to be the governing principles of legislation , are set aside by the legists of Irák as being of no account whatever . Legisla- tion is not a science ...
... history of a country - all those considerations , in fact , which are held in the West to be the governing principles of legislation , are set aside by the legists of Irák as being of no account whatever . Legisla- tion is not a science ...
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... historical and traditional . In an elegy on his death by Abu Muhammad Ja'far it is said : " His Traditions were of the greatest authority ; his gravity was impressive ; and when he delivered them , all his auditors were plunged in ...
... historical and traditional . In an elegy on his death by Abu Muhammad Ja'far it is said : " His Traditions were of the greatest authority ; his gravity was impressive ; and when he delivered them , all his auditors were plunged in ...
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... history , object and their connection with the laws of the Quran . He should know by heart the most important Traditions . 4. A pious and austere life . 5. A profound knowledge of all the sciences of the Law . Should any one now aspire ...
... history , object and their connection with the laws of the Quran . He should know by heart the most important Traditions . 4. A pious and austere life . 5. A profound knowledge of all the sciences of the Law . Should any one now aspire ...
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... history ; but regards itself as a body of absolute truth , one jot or tittle of which cannot be rejected without incurring the ever- lasting wrath of God . " 1 1. Osborn's Islám under the Khalífs p . 72 . CHAPTER II . EXEGESIS OF THE ...
... history ; but regards itself as a body of absolute truth , one jot or tittle of which cannot be rejected without incurring the ever- lasting wrath of God . " 1 1. Osborn's Islám under the Khalífs p . 72 . CHAPTER II . EXEGESIS OF THE ...
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Page 159 - Praise be to Him who carried His servant "by night from the sacred temple to the temple that is more remote, whose precincts we have blessed, that we might show him some of our signs! For He is the Hearer, the Seer." And again: "And remember we said to thee, verily, thy Lord is round about mankind; we ordained the vision which we showed thee.
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