“Among the conventional adab anthologies, we encounter a somewhat different organization of the traditional material in the Kitâb Adab ad- dunyâ wa-d-dîn… — Franz Rosenthal Character Copy Share Image
“The primeval “pen,” for instance, is light, and the writing on the well- guarded tablet is a light of God, as the… — Franz Rosenthal Darkness Copy Share Image
“The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: “The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“It is recommendable to study even at unusual hours: The Prophet woke up in the night and had his household awakened in… — Franz Rosenthal Family Copy Share Image
“Knowledge means true leadership. Honor paid to a man because of his wealth or his power ought not to please him, because… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Umar puts his awareness of the restlessness for more and more knowledge that possesses true scholars, in these words: “Scholars are more… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“The Messiah (Jesus) says: “God shows the greatest hatred for a scholar who loves to be remembered when being abroad, who is… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Altogether there is little that can be said about "knowledge" in pre-Islamic Arabia. There existed, it seems, an original elementary concept of… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Next to knowledge, commerce was the mainspring of the mobility of Muslim society. The power of money was fully understood by scholars.… — Franz Rosenthal Business Copy Share Image
“Socrates “was asked why seawater had become salty. He replied: If you can indicate to me the use that will come to… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Love of what is good and useful, and hatred of what is ugly or evil and harmful are the conditions for success.… — Franz Rosenthal Business Copy Share Image
“Nobility of birth was held in the lowest esteem of all the material advantages. It was certainly deemed by far less valuable… — Franz Rosenthal Ignorance Copy Share Image
“A sage said to his son: You must concern yourself with knowledge, for the least benefi t it confers upon the person… — Franz Rosenthal Business Copy Share Image
“Al-Ghazzâlî expectedly takes a rather different approach in the preliminaries of his standard work on the principles of jurispru- dence, the Mustasfâ.… — Franz Rosenthal Different approach Copy Share Image
“1. “Knowledge is the revelation (tajallî ) of things themselves.”130 Note the use of the verb tajallâ in D-10. 2. “Knowledge is… — Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Copy Share Image
