This paper utilizes a content study to clarify the concepts and relationship between sharicah, tariqah, haqiqah, and marifah by Wan Sulaiman b. Wan Siddik, a Malay Sufi scholar in 19th in the Malay world. He clarifies these four terminologies in his epistle Mizan al-uqala’ wa al-udaba’ due to many misconceptions about this matter by his...Read More

Novel writing in Arabic language is a contemporary effort in Arabic literature ofNigerian authorship. This, however, is not strange because of the fact that the genrein global Arabic literature is equally not very old. It is however note worthy howwriters use Arabic in purely literary ways to convey social messages. Novel writing,most especially, is being...Read More

The principle of cognation between cause and effect as one of the subsidiary rules of the principle of causality is an important issue in the history of Islamic philosophy, in such a way that the denial of this principle draws one to deny the principle of causality. The aim of this paper is to study...Read More

The relationship between the material intellect and the active intellect is an important issue in the realm of epistemology in Islamic philosophy. The aim of the present study is to compare the views of Averroes and Al-Farabi in this regard. Reviewing their theories, this study shows that both the mentioned philosophers agree upon the fact...Read More