He left for Paris in 1817 where he studied oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy and was awarded professorship for Indology at the School for Living Oriental Languages, that was founded for him.
He is well known as the author of a collection of travels and fantastic stories from the Indian Ocean, a riḥla or travelogue known in Arabic simply as Riḥlat al-Sīrāfī (al-Sīrāfī’s Travelogue), and often associated with the writings of…
It has been described as the "largest university of the Medieval world." [2 ] The Nizamiyya school was completely Shafi'i. One of its requirements was that all teachers, preachers, and librarians be Shafi'i in jurisprudence and Ash'ari in…
Sharh al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya (Arabic: شرح العقائد النسفية) is a commentary written by the Hanafi-Shafi'i scholar al-Taftazani (d. 791/1389 or 792/1390) on the creed of Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi (d.
Shadi Sadr (Persian: شادی صدر; born 1974) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights advocate, essayist and journalist. She co-founded Justice for Iran (JFI) in 2010 and is the Executive Director of the NGO.
Zaira Zaman Chowdhury currently works at the Centre for Research in Nanotechnology and Catalysis (Nanocen), University of Malaya. Zaira does research in Chemical Engineering. Their current project is 'PALM TREE Biomass Catalytic Biorefining…