Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Al-Serat (A Journal of Islamic Studies)

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Islam, the Qur'an and the Arabic Literature
• Islam and Arabic: a unique relationship
• The Qur'an: Muhammad's strongest argument
• The role played by language in pre-Islamic Arabia
• The role of the poet in pre-Islamic Arabia
• The inimitability of the Qur'an
• The impact of the Qur'an of the Arabic language
• Structure and content
• Lexical borrowing
• Structure and style
• Islam, the Qur'an, and the internationalization of the Arabic language
• Conclusion
• Footnotes
• The Concept Of Martyrdom In Islam
• Notes
• Religious Education of the Younger Generation
• Elegy (Marthiya) on Husayn: Arabic and Persian
• Notes
• The Excellences of the Imam Husayn in Sunni Hadith Tradition
• EXCELLENCES OF THE AHL AL BAYT
• HASAN AND HUSAYN
• CONCLUSION
• Notes
• The Fast of 'Ashura
• The History of the Islamic Calendar in the Light of the Hijra
• Lawnd or Kabisa
• The Solar Calendar
• Bibliography
• Martyrdom of Imam Husayn and the Muslim and Jewish Calendars
• The Principle of Ijtihad in Islam
• The appearance of the Akhbaris in Shi'i Islam
• The struggle with Akhbarism
• A sample of the two ways of thinking
• The hadith of the sixth Imam concerning the kind of taqlid which is illicit
• Regarding the popular belief that the `ulama cannot be tainted by immorality
• Taqlid permitted by the shari`a
• Why is taqlid of a dead person not permitted
• How the faqih's outlook on the world affects the legal opinions he issues
• The understanding of necessities
• An important recommendation
• The division of the sciences into specialised branches
• The progress made in fiqh during the last thousand years
• Footnotes
• The Illustrious Period of the Imamate of Imam Zayn al-'Abidin
• ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS IMAMAT
• UNITING THE SHIA COMMUNITY
• TEACHING TRUE ISLAM
• Imam Hasan 'The Myth of his Divorces'
• The Scholarly Jihad of the Imams 95 - 148 A.H
• Part II
• Notes
• The Interior Life in Islam
• Notes
• Kitab al-Irshad' by Al-Mufid
• Islam and the Question of Violence
• The Spiritual Significance of Jihad
• Karbala and the Imam Husayn in Persian and Indo-Muslim literature
• Your religion is your Husayn, greed and wish are your pigs and dogs
• 'Al-Kafi' by Al-Kulayni
• The Author
• Al- Kafi
• Notes
• The Imam Husayn's Concepts of Religion and Leadership
• Imams - Clear and Coherent Policy
• The Prophet and Prophetic Tradition - The Last Prophet and Universal Man
• Reflections on Islam and Modern Life
• Notes
• Revelation and Salvation Towards an Islamic View Of History
• Notes
• 'Man la yahduruh al-Faqih' by Al-Saduq
• The Author
• Man la yahduruh al-faqih
• Notes
• Why "Islamic" Science?
• 'Tahdhib al-Ahkam' and 'Al-Istibsar' by Al-Tusi
• The Author
• Tahdhib al-ahkam fi sharh al-muqni 'a
• Al-Istibsar fima 'khtalaf al-akhbar
• Notes