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Our Publications’ databank / collection

‘Our Publications’ collection is a bibliographic database of the Foundation's own publications. These works are the outcome of prominent research projects and events carried out by the three centres of the Foundation, i.e. the ‘Manuscripts Centre’, the ‘Mawsoa Centre’ and the ‘Maqasid Centre’.

This collection was added to the ‘Al-Furqan Digital Library’ to enrich the user research experience. The collection is continuously updated, and currently contains over 200 works in over 400 volumes. These cover both introductory and advanced topics discussed and presented by distinguished scholars in the field of Islamic written heritage.

It also includes many popular and heavily cited publications, as well as award winning works, such as the critical edition of al-Isfizāri’s book which deals with the field of mechanics, known as “the sciences of weights and mechanical devices” (‘Ilmay al-Athqāl wal-Ḥiyal). Other popular items include works by the late famous scholar Annemarie Schimmel, such as The Secrets of Creative Love (1998) and Islam and the Wonders of Creation(2003); and many other highly demanded references, including the unique Encyclopaedia of Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah.

Universal Purposes of the Islamic Law and Exegesis Methodologies

By Hassan Jabir
2007
Arabic
Lectures
1
9781905650071*
Booklet
Paperback
1
72
0.100 kg
Hassan Jabir (Author)
*Original ISBN 1905650019 previously printed in the book is not valid. Please refer to the new ISBN.

This lecture aims to rekindle critical thinking within the current discourse in the Arab and Islamic World. The lecture makes a link between traditionalism (aṣālah), and renewal (tajdīd) with a view to preserving Islam’s intellectual and legal heritage, while allowing for the deriving new rulings through contemplative and critical study. In doing so it falls in line with the Qurʾānic methodology in cohesively fusing between human understanding and law, between life and knowledge, and methodology and direction. In this lecture, Dr. Hassan Jabir highlighted the challenges faced by the Qurʾān interpreters in trying to arrive at the meanings intended by the Law-Giver. This is great challenge due to the nature of the Qurʾān being an open book, where the interpreter faces various meanings across a number of complex fields.