Most Popular Books by Ibn

"Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad ''Alawi''s Sharoh Kitaab al-Qabasaat."

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder. An English-only edition.

Beginning with biographical notes on the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, Ibn Asakir takes the reader through a remarkable collection of hadith describing the virtues of the ‘Mothers of the Believers’, an appellation invested on the wives of the Propheﷺ by the Qur’anic text itself.

Tafsir Ibn Kathir is the most renowned and accepted explanation of the Quran in the entire world. In it one finds the best presentation of Ahadith (stories), history, and scholarly commentary. Muslims consider it to be the best source based on Quran and Sunnah. This Arabic work spans thousands of pages in five volumes. To cover all of the references, Ibn Kathir has also collected Ahadith and Israelites stories. Tafsir Ibn Kathir is one of the Most Comprehensive and Complete Explanation of The Noble Quran. In it one finds the best presentation of Ahadith, history, and scholarly commentary. All of the authentic saying of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) are presented in Arabic along with the diacritics. Muslims all over the world use it as a trusted source of Tafsir of the Quran and Sunnah. It is a resource that all libraries or personal collection of English Islamic books should have.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

Sunan Ibn Majah is a collection of hadith of the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him). It is widely considered to be the sixth of the six canonical collection of hadith (Kutub as-Sittah) of the Sunnah of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him).

Rhazes, a great clinician, ranks with Hippocrates, Aretaeus, and Sydenham as one of the original portrayers of disease. His description of small-pox and measles is the first authentic account in literature. This edition contains a list of all the editions and translations, the Greek translator''s preface, Channing''s Latin preface, Haller''s preface, and an index in both Arabic and English. -- H.W. Orr.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Libraries N030714 The ''A''in-i Akbari'' is attributed to Abu al-Faózl ibn Mubarak. VVol.2 imprint begins: printed by J. Swan. London: printed by G. Auld, for J. Sewell; Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; Lackington, Allen, and Co.; [and 4 others in London], 1800. 2v.; 8°

Al-''Iqd al-Farid (The Unique Necklace) is one of the classics of Arabic literature. Compiled in several volumes by an Andalusian scholar and poet named Ibn ''Abd Rabbih (246-328 A.H. / 860-940 C.E.), it remains a wealth of information about various elements of Arab culture and letters during the four centuries before Ibn ''Abd Rabbih''s death. Essentially, it is a book of adab, a term understood in modern times to specifically mean literature, but in earlier times its meaning included all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual. This meaning later evolved and included belles letters in the form of elegant prose and verse that was as much entertaining as it was morally educational - such as poetry, pleasant anecdotes, proverbs, historical accounts, general knowledge, wise maxims, and even practical philosophy. Ibn ''Abd Rabbih''s imagination and organization saved his encyclopedic compendium from becoming a chaotic jumble of materials by conceiving of it as a necklace composed of 25 ''books, '' each of which carried the name of a jewel. Each of the 25 ''books'' was organized around a major theme and had an introduction written by Ibn ''Abd Rabbih, followed by his relevant adab selections of verse and prose on the theme of the ''book.'' He drew on a vast repertoire of sources including the Bible, the Qur''an, and the Hadith, and the works of al-Jahiz, ibn Qutayba, al-Mubarrad, Abu ''Ubayda ibn al-Muthanna, and several others, as well as the diwans of many Arab poets, including his own poetry. Volume I of this translation of al-''Iqd al-Farid contains four of its 25 ''books.'' Volume II, contains two more. Volume III - now available in paperback - contains a further four ''books.'' (Series: The Great Books of Islamic Civilization)

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Introduction The Ruh al-quds and the al-Durrat at Fakhirah Ibn Arabi, his life and work The Sufi Way The Translation.