Introduction to Islamic Law : Islamic Law in Theory and Practice download book

Book: Introduction to Islamic Law : Islamic Law in Theory and Practice

Author: Ahmed AKGUNDUZ

Pages: 1

Format: pdf

Language: English

ISBN10: 9080719269

The world today has become one large village. Muslims and non-Muslims live side by side and have to learn about one another, share commonalities and respect differences. At this time more than one and a half billion Muslims live in this village. Some of them are pious Muslims, trying to live in accordance with Islamic rules, whereas others do not while believing that these rules come from God (the Quran), from interpretations of His Messenger {the Sunnah) or the consensus of Muslim jurists {ijma), and are at least rules derived via analog)' {qiyas) from the main sources of Islam. Most Muslims think along these lines and agree with the above. The reader should remember that Muslim individuals should live according to Islamic rules in private, but no individual is responsible for implementing Islamic law. In any event, the need to learn the facts about Islamic law is necessary for Muslims as well as for non-Muslims if they live in the same society with Muslims, at least in the sense of general information.

Mystics and Saints of Islam (Classic Reprint) download book

Book: Mystics and Saints of Islam (Classic Reprint)

Author: Claud Field

Pages: 226

Format: PDF

Language: English

ISBN10: 1440092931

IT is a custom in some quarters to represent Mohammadan mysticism as merely a late importation into Islam,' and an altogether alien element in it. But however much later Islamic mysticism may have de-:· rived from Christian, Neo-platonic, and Buddhist sources, there is little doubt that the roota of mystiCism are to be found m the Koran itself. The following verse is an instance: "God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp encased in glass-the glass as it were a glistening star. From a blessed tree is it lighted, the olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would well nigh shine out even though fire touched it not! . It is light upon light! " (Koran Sura 24). Indeed it seems strange to accord the title of "a practical mystic" to Cromwell and to deny it to Mohammad, whose proclivity for religious meditation was so strong that the Arabs-- used to say " Muhammad is in love with his Make