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The Islamic Review March - April 1942

1942

The word " Yad " literally (hand) stands for power or superiority the use of the hand being the real source of the superiority of man over all other animals and the apparent meaning of the phrase is in acknowledgment of your superiority in protecting the lives etc. [...] " By the day of the Greater Pilgrimage is meant the ninth or the tenth of Zulhijja being the day of the great assemblage of the pilgrimage in the plains of Arafat and Mina " (Rz). [...] The - injunction contained in the first part of the verse establishes the fact that the whole verse relates to certain idolatrous Arab tribes who had broken their engagements with the Muslims and who had now been apprised of a similar repudiation by the Muslims The essential fact to be borne in mind is that all Polytheists of the world even all idolaters of Arabia are not spoken of in the verse [...] The tone of this insidious note betrays the mind of the writer the phrase ' derived ridiculously from Sarah the wife of Abraham ' breathes as usual that spirit of restless and rancorous hostility with which the author of the ' Decline and Fall ' has been pleased to pursue everthing connected in the remotest degree with the credit or credibility of revealed religion." The reverend gent [...] The names mountains of Sarah ' and ' country of Sarah ' by which the northern seats of the Edomites were familiarly known to the Jews in the age of the Maccabees are re-echoed from the extreme south by the Arabs of Yemen at the present day in those of al-Saraut and Ayal Sarah.
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Segment Pages Author Actions
A Declaration
81-81 M. Essak view
“The Garden of Peace”
82-86 W.B. Pickard view
From the Cross to the Crescent
86-94 Abdur Selliah view
The Camel Driver
95-97 Alan Emley view
Islam and Civilisation
97-104 Abdul Khan view
Islam and the Pursuit of Knowledge
105-107 Mizanur Rahman view
Jizyah and Shari A (Islamic Law)
108-115 M.Y. Khan view
The Saracens
115-123 Ahmed Akhtar view
Correspondence
124-126 unknown view
Book Review
126-127 unknown view
Backmatter
128-128 unknown view

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