13 Jul 2026, 13:00 UTC885 views4 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Photo
# UPDATE: Al-Marʿashī’s Tartīb al-ʿulūm/Arranging the Sciences
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I spent most of last week preparing al-Marʿashī’s Tartīb al-ʿulūm (“Arranging the Sciences”) for an external revision. Preparation work included converting it to the new typesetting system, sourcing all quotes, and adding glossaries for all persons and books mentioned in the text.
The full text is approximately 200 pages, not includi…
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12 Jul 2026, 19:53 UTC299 views5 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Photo
# Ibn Qasim’s Fatḥ al-qarīb, part 1 (Intro, Purification)
Several people have asked me to start sharing from my translation of Shaykh Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī’s Fatḥ al-qarīb – his explanation of Qāḍī Abū Shujāʿ’s al-Taqrīb/Ghāyat al-Ikhtiṣār (“The Utmost Conciseness”).
This first share covers the book’s introduction and the chapter on purification.
Please be sure to read the translator’s preface. The whole book is don…
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4 Jul 2026, 01:17 UTC363 views6 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Photo
# Ashʿarī Lexicons - ver 3: refined, expanded, explained
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This share expands on last week’s Ashʿarī Lexicons by adding
1. al-Bājī’s al-Ḥudūd fī l-uṣūl,
2. al-Taftāzānī’s Risālat al-Ḥudūd,
3. al-Thaʿālibī al-Hawwārī’s Ḥaqāʾiq al-Tawḥīd, and
4. al-Sanūsī’s al-Ḥaqāʾiq fī taʿrīfāt muṣṭalaḥāt ʿulamāʾ al-kalām.
A friend recommended I add (2, 4); I figured I would add (1, 3) so the PDF would contain th…
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29 Jun 2026, 21:04 UTC388 views4 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Photo
# Ashʿarī Lexicons - ver 2
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This week's share is a repeat of last week's Ashʿarī Lexicons – using a typesetting workflow that allows me to present English and Arabic on facing pages within the same spread without requiring any manual intervention.
There are a few PDF eBook quality-of-life improvements: the table of contents, in-text cross-references, and index entries are now clickable: click them…
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21 Jun 2026, 10:03 UTC≈1,150 views8 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Ashʿarī Lexicons
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Recently, I have been drafting a series of booklets that I wish I'd had as a student. The first booklet in the series was Sanūsiyyan Ontology and Reasoning. Today's share is an anthology of lexicons presenting the technical vocabulary of kalām – as well as many other sciences – as defined by major scholars of the tradition themselves:
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Fūrak (d. 406) – a…
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26 May 2026, 22:17 UTC≈1,020 views5 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Sanūsiyyan Proofs Unpacked and Unfolded
Last week I started sharing the booklet titled Sanūsiyyan Reasoning and Ontology. Yesterday, I started drafting a chapter to show how that reasoning works in the compact proof for existence in Umm al-Barāhīn, and then how it gets unpacked and extended in the shurūḥ and ḥawāshī. The chapter quickly outgrew the format of that booklet, so I figured it might make the first of a …
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26 May 2026, 22:12 UTC637 views4 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Sanūsiyyan Reasoning & Ontology
While working on thesis materials, I found myself writing about Imām al-Sanūsī's reasoning and ontology. This is something I had wanted to write as a companion booklet for a long time. So I threw it together in a small booklet, tentatively titled: Sanūsiyyan Reasoning & Ontology: A Companion to Imām al-Sanūsī's Short Theological Writings.
## What it is
A plain-English companion to…
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26 May 2026, 21:52 UTC333 views8 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Eid Mubarak, everyone.
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5 May 2026, 10:12 UTC528 views6 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Books in Malaysia
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The six recent books are now available in Kuala Lumpur at Pelita Dhihin Bookstore (Petaling Jaya) and Nur Innai Bookshop (Sri Hartamas).
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26 Apr 2026, 03:43 UTC669 views2 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Maḥmūd al-Bājūrī: al-Fuṣūl al-Badīʿah fī Uṣūl al-Sharīʿah, part 1
Today’s share comes from a translation of al-Fuṣūl al-Badīʿah fī Uṣūl al-Sharīʿah (“The Exquisite Chapters on the Principles of the Law”) by Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Shāhīn al-Bājūrī (d. after 1323/1905).
Al-Bājūrī states in his introduction that he summarised Jamʿ al-Jawāmiʿ – the celebrated compendium of legal theory by Tāj al-Dīn…
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12 Apr 2026, 11:04 UTC597 views1 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Creed from al-Thimār al-Yāniʿah
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This share presents the section on creed excerpted from Shaykh Muḥammad Nawawī al-Jāwī of Banten's (d. 1316 AH/1898 CE) al-Thimār al-Yāniʿah, a commentary on al-Riyāḍ al-Badīʿah by al-ʿAllāma Muḥammad b. Sulaymān Ḥasb Allāh (d. 1225 AH/1810 CE). The commentary was completed in 1277 AH and first printed in 1299 AH. The text comprises approximately 6,600 words in to…
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12 Apr 2026, 06:32 UTC427 views4 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # Al-Qudusī al-Jāwī’s Kifāyat al-Mubtadī: The Beginner’s Sufficiency ~ parts 1–2
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Here is Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Khaṭīb al-Qudusī al-Jāwī al-Makkī’s (d. 1293 AH/1876 CE) Kifāyat al-Mubtadī (The Beginner’s Sufficiency), another ʿaqīdah text written in Arabic by an Indonesian-world scholar residing in the Ḥaramayn.
I did a complete revision, so I am resharing part 1.
The Arabic t…
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