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The Kitāb al-Ḥayawān ( Arabic: كتاب الحيوان, lit. ' The Book of Animals ') is an Arabic translation of treatises (Arabic: مقالات, maqālāt) of Aristotle 's: Historia Animalium: treatises 1–10; De Partibus Animalium: treatises 11–14; De Generatione Animalium: treatises 15–19. Medieval Arabic tradition ascribes the ...
Osama ( Arabic: أسامة, Usāma ), also spelt Osamah, Oussama, and Usama, is an Arabic masculine given name. The name derives from the Arabic stem اسم A-S-M Alif Sin Mim "name" and means more or less "the one with a name". It is one of the Arabic male given names for "lion", the lion being considered as an animal with fame.
The following is a list of tafsir works. Tafsir is a body of commentary and explication, aimed at explaining the meanings of the Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam. Tafsir can broadly be categorized by its affiliated Islamic schools and branches and the era it was published, classic or modern.
Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet ( Arabic: عفريت, romanized : ʿifrīt, lit. ' [ʕifriːt]' ( listen ⓘ ), plural عفاريت ʿafārīt ), is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. The ʿafārīt are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and have been compared to evil geniī loci in European culture. [2] In Quran, hadith ...
A commonly used word which may encompass qurban is uḍḥiyah(أضحية). In Islamic Law, udhiyah would refer to the sacrifice of a specific animal, offered by a specific person, on specific days to seek God's pleasure and reward. A bull owner taking care of cattle for Eid Al Adhain Bangladesh.
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal ( Arabic: ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ, romanized : al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, lit. 'Deceitful Messiah'), [1] otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative. [1] [2] The ...
Islam. Khitan ( Arabic: ختان) or Khatna ( Arabic: ختنة) is the Arabic term for circumcision, [1] [2] and the Islamic term for the practice of religious male circumcision in Islamic culture. [3] Male circumcision is widespread in the Muslim world, [3] and accepted as an established practice by all Islamic schools of jurisprudence.
The actual name of al-Jahiz was Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Bahr ibn Maḥbūb. His grandfather, Maḥbūb, was a protégé or mawali of ‘Amr ibn Qal‘ al-Kinānī, who was from Arab Banu Kinanah tribe. [n 1] Not much is known about al-Jāḥiẓ's early life, but his family was very poor. Born in Basra early in 160/February 776, he asserted in ...