Early Muslims wrote extensively about human nature and called it Ilm-al Nafsiat or self-knowledge. In many cases, their works seem to be the original ideas for many modern day psychological theories and practices. What is interesting however is that a lot of what the early scholars wrote was blended with Islamic philosophy and religious ideas....Read More

I n Arabic kal¥m means ‘speech’, or a sequence of words. However it also means ‘dialogue’; and this is the meaning which was intended in the case of Islamic kal¥m. In its philosophical context kal¥m denotes a collection of concepts, assumptions, principles, and problems that is used to explain the relationship between God and the...Read More

The conventional view holds that girih (geometric star-and-polygon, or strapwork) patterns in medieval Islamic architecture were conceived by their designers as a network of zigzagging lines, where the lines were drafted directly with a straightedge and a compass. We show that by 1200 C.E. a conceptual breakthrough occurred in which girih patterns were reconceived as...Read More

The general purpose of this study is to examine and discuss the philosophical basis of the Islamic and Western secular viewpoints as presented on bioethical issues. My goal is to demonstrate the importance of considering ethical values when dealing with medical practice. This work, therefore, studies the broad outlines of Islamic legal philosophy by comparing...Read More