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  • [P] anic ensued, people fleeing the area, others thinking they could smell poison gas or could see flashes of lightning in the distance.

    Reliving Radio History This Halloween 2009

  • Some of the Qur™anic verses have been viewed by the mystics and philosopher-mystics of Islam as allegorical and esoteric hints for those who can see them.

    Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009

  • With Shaykh Baha™i, as was the case with a number of other students, he studied the scriptural sciences of Qur™anic exegesis and the traditions of the Shi˜i Imams.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • Mulla Sadra was keen to insist upon the Qur™anic account of bodily resurrection but he recognised that it was difficult to provide a philosophical account of the resurrection of this world's physical body.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • These prompt the Muslim scholar to interpret the Qur™anic passages where these words appear as symbols

    Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

  • A bright young man, his interest in intellectual pursuits was indulged by his father, and he moved first to Qazvin in 1000 AH/1591 and then to Isfahan in 1006 AH/1597, successive capitals of the Safavid empire, to pursue his study of philosophy, theology, the prophetic tradition, and Qur™anic hermeneutics and exegesis with the two pre-eminent teachers of his age,

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • In the famous attack by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Incoherence of the Philosophers, thinkers such as Avicenna were condemned for heresy for their failure to demonstrate the supposed Qur™anic account of physical resurrection and the reality of the afterlife.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • While acknowledging the existence of a Greek heritage, those who consider the Qur™an and the Islamic tradition as the main source of inspiration for falsafa claim that the latter did not arise from the encounter of learned Muslims with the Greek philosophical heritage: instead, according to them falsafa stemmed from the Qur™anic hikma (“wisdom”).

    Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy D'Ancona, Cristina 2009

  • In the Niche of Lights (1998), Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111) discussed mystical epistemology using Qur™anic light terminology, whereas Suhrawardi, in his Philosophy of Illumination, developed a truly original light ontology.

    Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

  • A majority of the calligraphy sheets were written on paper, however, a group of Qur’anic fragments from the 9th and 10th centuries were inscribed on parchment.

    New Web Exhibit From Library of Congress: Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy « ResourceShelf 2006

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