Wax & Gold basket The purpose of this study

The purpose of this study is to turn our attention toward those universal elements of Islamic thought and spirituality which are explicitly grounded in the deepest common dimensions of human experience: dimensions that can alone provide us with the indispensable foundations for true communication

the sound of recitation is far more than the pervasive background music of daily life in the Arab world

Islamic scholarship has hence devoted immense efforts to gathering and classifying the hadith

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particularly on his motives for leaving Baghdad and the nature of his "seclusion" afterwards

Wax & Gold basket The purpose of this study