Re-thinking Life !

The centre of a map tells you much, as does the choice where to begin a story, or a history. Arab geographers used to place the Caspian Sea at the centre of world maps. On a medieval Turkish map, one that transfixed me long ago, we find the city of Balasaghun at the heart of the world. How to teach world history today is a question that is going to grow only more and more important. Last summer in the United States, a debate flared when the influential testing agency Advanced Placement (AP) announced a change to its attendant courses, a change in which ‘world history’ would begin in 1450. In practice, beginning world history in 1450 becomes a story about how Europeans came to dominate not one but all the continents, and excludes the origins of alphabets, agriculture, cities and civilisation. Before the 1400s, it was others who did the empire-building, drove sciences, medicine and philosophy, and sought to capitalise on and extend the trading networks that facilitated the flow and exc...

In European antiquity, philosophers largely wrote in Greek. Even after the Roman conquest of the Mediterranean and the demise of paganism, philosophy was strongly associated with Hellenic culture. The leading thinkers of the Roman world, such as Cicero and Seneca, were steeped in Greek literature; Cicero even went to Athens to pay homage to the home of his philosophical heroes. Tellingly, the emperor Marcus Aurelius went so far as to write his Meditations in Greek. Cicero, and later Boethius, did attempt to initiate a philosophical tradition in Latin. But during the early Middle Ages, most of Greek thought was accessible in Latin only partially and indirectly. Elsewhere, the situation was better. In the eastern part of the Roman Empire, the Greek-speaking Byzantines could continue to read Plato and Aristotle in the original. And philosophers in the Islamic world enjoyed an extraordinary degree of access to the Hellenic intellectual heritage. In 10th-century Baghdad, readers of Ara...

  Every last 10 days of Ramadan of every year, most Muslims around the world pray and supplicate at night hoping that one of these nights, especially Odd nights (21, 23, 25, 27,and 29th of Ramadan) might be the NIght of the Ordainment (Laylat Al-Qadr القدر ليلة ). In the Middle East, many countries, especially my country, the Lebanon believe it is the 27th of Ramadan every year, which is not true. Laylat Al-Qadr القدر ليلة  was not revealed to us by Allah (swt) though our beloved Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) so that we strive during the last 10 days every night to pray and supplicate for if we knew when the ليلة القدر is exactly then people might indulge in sins and on Laylat Al-Qadr ليلة القدر they would ask Allay (swt) for forgiveness. Or is true that Laylat Al-Qadr ليلة القدر cannot be known for sure? Let’s what a new numerical analysis of the Quran has to say about it. Primalogy and The Holy Quran All the information below is taken from Ali Adam’s website, a place where he...