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Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

By: Nidhal Guessoum
publisher: I. B. Tauris
year: 2011, pages: 433, PDF 2.4 Mb

In secular Europe, the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of the evolutionary proofs of Darwin or of spectacular investigation into the boundaries of physics conducted by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry goes to the heart of fundamental truths about the universe. Yet elsewhere, science is under siege.

In the USA, Christian fundamentalists contest whether evolution should be taught in schools at all. And in Muslim countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, a mere 15% of those recently surveyed believed Darwin's theory to be "true" or "probably true." This thoughtful and passionately argued book contends absolutely to the contrary: not only that evolutionary theory does not contradict core Muslim beliefs, but that many scholars, from Islam's golden age to the present, adopted a worldview that accepted evolution as a given. Guessoum suggests that the Islamic world, just like the Christian, needs to to take scientific questions -- quantum questions -- with the utmost seriousness if it is to recover its true heritage and integrity. In its application of a specifically Muslim perspective to important topics like cosmology, divine action and evolution, the book makes a vital contribution to debate in the disputed field of "science and religion."

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صحيح البخاري

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by: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري
File : CHM 4.3 Mb

صحيح البخارى هو أصح كتب الحديث النبوي عند أهل السنة والجماعة. جمعه أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري وأسماه "الجامع المسند الصحيح المختصر من أُمور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وسننه وأيامه". هو أول مصنف في الحديث الصحيح المجرد المنسوب إلى محمد بن عبد الله رسول الديانة الإسلامية، وجاء مبوباً على الموضوعات الفقهية. وجملة أحاديث كتابه: سبعة آلاف ومئتان وخمسة وسبعون حديثاً بالمكرر، ومن غير المكرر أربعة آلاف حديث منسوب لمحمد. وقد نقل النووي إجماع الأمة على صحة الكتاب هذا ووجوب العمل بأحاديثه حيث قال[1]

«أجمعت الأمة على صحة هذين الكتابين ووجوب العمل بأحاديثهما» – يحيى بن شرف النووي

أي صحيح البخاري وصحيح مسلم، قام البخاري بجمعه والتحقق من صحة الأحاديث حسب علم الحديث الذي أسسه. والبخاري نسبة إلى بخارى في آسيا الوسطى. كان عمره ست عشرة سنة يوم ابتدأ بكتابة الصحيح، وانتهى وعمره ثمان وثلاثين سنة. أي تقريباً في سنة 232 هـ وقد ولد البخاري عام 194 هـ، وتوفي سنة 256 هـ. ويعد أول كتب الحديث عند السنة، وله مكانة بارزة لديهم، فيطلق عليه، مع صحيح مسلم، الصحيحان. قال ابن حجر في "مقدمة فتح الباري": "إن عدد ما في البخاري من المتون الموصولة بلا تكرار 2602 عنوان"

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تفسير ابن كثير

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by: الحافظ بن كثير
CHM 9.7

تفسير ابن كثير للإمام الحافظ بن كثير (المتوفى سنة 774 هجرية) من أهم وأشهر ما دون في التفسير المأثور، وهو في هذه الناحية يعتبر الكتاب الثاني بعد كتاب ابن جرير الطبري. مع صغر حجمه ووجازة لفظه وشمول معانيه، ويحظى بقبول واسع بين الناس خاصة وعامة.

اختار الإمام ابن كثير أحسن الطرق في تفسير القرآن مثل الرواية عن مفسري السلف وتفسير القرآن بالقرآن وتفسير القرآن بالسنة والأحاديث والآثار المسندة إلى أصحابها وتفسير القرآن بأقوال الصحابة والتابعين.

كما اهتم باللغة وعلومها واهتم بالأسانيد ونقدها واهتم بذكر القراءات وأسباب النزول.

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Muslims on the Americanization Path?

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By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 384, Date: 2000-05-11
ISBN-10 : 0195135261, PDF 2.2 Mb

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There are now more Muslims in America than in Kuwait, Qatar, and Libya combined. It is the second largest religion in France and the third in Britain, Germany, and North America. Leaving aside immigration and conversion, birth rate alone ensures that in the first part of the twenty-first century Islam will replace Judaism as the second largest religion in the United States.

Like all religious and ethnic minorities in America, Muslims must confront a host of difficult questions. Can they become part of a pluralistic American society without sacrificing their identity? Can Muslims be Muslims in a state that is not governed by Islamic law? Will the American legal system protect Muslim religious and cultural differences? Is there a contradiction between demanding equal rights and insisting on maintaining a distinctively separate identity? In this wide-ranging volume, fourteen distinguished scholars take an in-depth look at these issues and examine the varied responses and opinions of the Muslim community.

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Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, 2nd Edition

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By Akbar S. Ahmed
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2002-02-01, ISBN-10 : 0203406303
PDF File-Size: 1.49 MB

Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the west have shaped Islamic society today. Islam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatic. Written in the tradition of Ibn Khaldun, this readable and wide ranging book balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates the sources of its strength.

From the four "ideal Caliphs" who succeeded the Prophet to the refugee camps of Peshawar, an objective picture emerges of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.

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Introduction to Islamic Law : Islamic Law in Theory and Practice

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By Ahmed AKGÜNDÜZ
9080719269, 9789080719262
IUR Press, Rotterdam 2010, 406 Pages
PDF, 18.29 MB,

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.

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Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence

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By Kecia Ali
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Pages: 192, Date: 2006-06-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1851684565, 1.27 MB rar pdf

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In this lucid and carefully constructed volume, feminist academic Kecia Ali examines classical Muslim texts and tries to evaluate whether a just system of sexual ethics is possible within an Islamic framework.

This is an important contribution to an unknown field in the English speaking world. Most westerners have a negative restrictive view of not only Islam but especially perceive it as sexist and putting its female adherents in a very limiting position (and the pun is somewhat intended).

This book will open up for those who wish to understand an approach very different from western norms. It was not a position which this reviewer necessarily was comfortable with but one which explains, and yes this book even critiques, that world which has been closed to us. Our previous exposure was to the 1001 Arabian Nights which like the Kama Sutra is outside the day to day lives of its followers while perhaps titalating for western readers.

This is a major contribution to the dialogue which must emerge between our society and Islam.

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