An index of Qurʾān citation in In the commentary translated by Elder in 1950 there’s not an index of Qurʾān citations. The following is complete index of citations as mentioned in the translation of the text. Note that this index doesn’t include the translators preface. Also note that a mention of the chapter is included…
Ashʿarism – HIP
Ashʿarism Ashʿarism by M. Abdul Hye, M.A, Ph.D, Professor of Philosophy, Government College, Rajshahi (Pakistan) A AL‑ASHʿARĪ’S LIFE AND WORK Ashʿarism is the name of a philosophico‑religious school of thought in Islam that developed during the fourth and fifth/tenth and eleventh centuries. This movement was “an attempt not only to purge Islam of all non‑Islamic elements…
Māturīdiyya -EI2
Māturīdiyya Māturīdiyya, a theological school named after its founder Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī [q.v.] which in the Mamlūk age came to be widely recognised as the second orthodox Sunnī kalām school besides the As̲h̲ʿariyya. The name Māturīdiyya does not appear to have been current before al-Taftazānī (d. 792/1390), who used it evidently to establish the role…
Secure
note that our site now uses a secure protocol be sure to use https in the URL What is Secure protocol: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) [ref]See: Secure your site with HTTPS link [/ref] is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely…
al-As̲h̲ʿarī, Abu ’l-Ḥasan
al-As̲h̲ʿarī, Abu ’l-Ḥasan, ʿalī b. ismāʿīl , theologian, and founder of the school of orthodox theology which bears his name. He is said to have been born in 260/873-4 at Baṣra, and was ninth in descent from the Companion Abū Mūsā al-As̲h̲ʿarī. Little is known of his life. He was one of the best pupils…
Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī
Māturīdī, Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Ḥanafī al-Mutakallim al-Māturīdī al-Samarḳandī is the titular head of the Māturīdite School of theology which, with the As̲h̲ʿarite School, form orthodox Sunnite Islām. The two Schools are equally orthodox, but there has always been a tendency to suppress al-Māturīdī’s name and to put al-As̲h̲ʿarī forward as the…
Table of Contents
Al-ʿaqīda al-nasafiyya (Nasafī Creed) Table of contents This website is dedicated to his short work ʿaqīdat al-nasafī (Nasafī Creed) which is work of Muslim philosophical theology of 1336 words in Arabic. Here we are presenting it in 19 sections and a total of 51 paragraphs of unequal length to facilitate its study in detail. Each paragraph is…
Shuruḥ on Video
Multimedia Presentations There are a lot of material on YouTube that is useful to the study of the creed. The following is a short explanation of the text of the creed are in Arabic approximately, 3 hours: شرح متن العقائد النسفية 1 0:15:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufgN0BhPEU 26-Jun-20 مؤسسة إعداد الدعاة شرح متن العقائد النسفية 2 0:15:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-RruL_yJg4…
Translations
Translations of the al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya There are many printed editions of Nasafi’s creed (al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) in circulation for as soon as it was released it was widely circulated therefore a discussion of the many published editions of this work is in order. This work continued to be popular into the modern period even as soon as Modern Arabic…
Printed Editions of Arabic text of al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya At the risk of stating the obvious there are many editions of Nasafi’s creed (al-ʿaqaīda al-Nasafiyya) in circulation for as soon as it was first released it was widely circulated therefore a discussion of the many published editions of this work is in order. This work continued to be popular…