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- The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the…
- The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense…
- From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world,…
- The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is…
- It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science.…
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