Both the Qur’an and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Hadith) frequently mention animals. The Qur’an declares that God does not shy away from drawing comparisons, even with a gnat, and two of the Suras (chapters) are indeed named after insects: the ant and the bee. The Qur’an speaks of animals being ‘communities like yourselves’,...Read More

Animalia is the essential part of the universe. Their existence on this planet is evident far before that of the mankind. The first fossils that might represent animals appear in the 665-million-year-old rocks of the Trezona Formation of South Australia. Some of the animals have been domesticated by the mankind over the centuries. Humans have...Read More

This book on Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul Al Fiqh) was prepared as an aid to a course on this subject conducted through internet in 1999 to an International Student Population on the request of Witness-Pioneer (an internet based Islamic International Intellectual Movement). The book has been modelled on classical ‘Usul’ books, the chapter planning has been...Read More

The holy Quran is the holy book of the Muslims. It contains information about many domains. Often people search for particular concepts of holy Quran based on the relations among concepts. An ontological modeling of holy Quran can be useful in such a scenario. In this paper, we have modeled nature related concepts of holy...Read More