Ayman Fuad Sayyid Article contents:Books of mathematical geographyThe geographical dictionaryGeography books about the Maghrib and AndalusiaUrban descriptions and local topographyBooks of travel accountsThe geographical ...
Jan Just Witkam I wish to thank Dr Arnoud Vrolijk for his help and support during the final stages of the composition of this chapter. When on Sunday 25th August 1889 two Egyptian gentlemen, ʿAbdallāh Fikrī Pasha and Muḥ...
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Article contents:The Hellenistic-Islamic legacyʿAjāʾib al-Mukhlūqāt (The Marvels of Creation)Early modern literatureModern literatureAmbassadors’ reports (sefāretnāmes) and travelogues (seyahatnāmes)...
Ibrahim Chabbouh In our Arab Islamic culture, classical geographical writings are an important basis for cultural and anthropological studies. They often serve as the starting point to reconstruct a view of old societies...
Abdallah Yusuf al-Ghunaim Article contents:Evaluating of the geographical heritage in the research and publication completed in the nineteenth centuryRevisions of research work published over the last two decadesThe invo...
Roshdi Rashed Bibliographers have often organised their books and catalogues along lines inspired by traditional teachings: so after the Qurʾānic sciences come the Prophetic Ḥadīth, followed by the sciences of language, ...
Aḥmad Zaki Yamani Article contents:1. The woman's inheritance as compared to man's2. Women's Travel3. Women as witnesses before the law Certain issues always raise questions when we maintain that Islam treat men and wome...
Aḥmad Zaki Yamani Muslim Women's participation in public life alongside men evidently acquired more vigour in the period that followed the Prophet's passing away, as also in the Umayyad period, and it continued to do so ...
Aḥmad Zaki Yamani In the pre-Islamic period, women were in a very lowly status in Arabia. An Arab man would look at a woman as a source of shame and humiliation. If a father was given the news of the birth of a girl, he ...
Aḥmad Zaki Yamani All praise is due to God who has created us all from one male and one female. He says in the Qur͗an: “Mankind! We have created you all out of a male and a female” (Q 49: 13) God has also established a c...