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The scholarship in Islamic civilization is characterized by combining the transmitted sciences and the rational ones as well as by combining the forensic sciences and the empirical ones. The Muslim scholars have embarked on all these sciences and excelled in them. Resultantly, they became able to build the land and make the history. Thus, they proved to the world that the religion of Islam is the religion of civilization, scholarship, renaissance, development and openness which has the capability to interact with all nations in a constructive manner. Similarly, in the subcontinent some scholars have emerged who combined the transmitted sciences with the rational ones, especially “sciences of Ḥadīth” and “science of medicine,” so they brought them together successfully and obtained an eminent scholarship. They stood out among all through teaching career and distinguished authorship in these fields. The paper introduces some of such scholars, highlights their prominent positions and sheds light over their work and contribution. The author adopted two approaches; namely, the inductive approach for tracing and collecting information regarding the scholars of Ḥadīth in the books siyar and rijāl; and the descriptive approach for analyzing their works in the fields of Ḥadīth and Medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the literary style of Mawlana Manazir Ahsan Gilani who was a well-known Indian religious scholar of the 20th century. He graduated from Dar ul-Uloom Deoband and played vital role in the preservation Islamic intellectual legacy. He documented Muslim tradition of India and composed a variety of books in almost all fields of Islamic studies. However, he is particularly distinctive in his writing style. He is considered an excellent writer in literary circles. A plethora of his books and writings are available both in poetry and prose that reflects his erudition not only in the subject matter but also his eminence in writing style. He has written in the fields of Quran, Hadith, Fiqh, jurisprudence, mysticism, history, education, preaching of Islam and political sciences. Apart from his thought, his writing style also influence the Urdu readers and writers. The present study illustrates the distinctive features and characteristics of his writings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the advent of Islam, the Arabic language became the academic language and most of the rich literature written in Greek, Persian or Hindi was translated in Arabic. This paper investigates the medium and elements of transmission of Greek Literature into Arabic language. A large number of Greek sources were translated into Arabic language during the Abbasid rule. The Arabs translated these Greek sources and then learned over again all they had already learned, correcting and verifying their earlier knowledge. Similarly, the Greek works were transmitted via Indian sources which might have been derived by Greek heritage. Thus, there came a second channel of transmission indirectly through India, mathematical and astronomical work, all a good deal developed by Indian scholars, but certainly developed from material obtained from Alexandria in the first place. This material had passed to India by the sea route which connected Alexandria with north-west India. Then there was also another line of passage through India which seems to have had its beginning in the Greek kingdom of Bactria, one of the Asiatic states founded by Alexander the Great, and a land route long kept open between the Greek world and India. Further, there were some scattered minor sources, unfortunately little known, such as the city of Harran, an obstinately pagan Greek colony planted in the middle of a Christian area, which probably made its contribution, though on a smaller scale. The article shows that the mentioned elements played a great role in transferring Greek heritage into Arabic heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Salafī school of juristic and legal thought is considered one of the major schools after the Hanafi school in the Indian subcontinent. Shaykh Sadīq Hasan Khan al-Qannujī (d. 1307A.H./1890A.C.), Shaykh Sayyed Muhammad Nazīr Husīn, known by "Shaykh al-kul" (d 1320/1952) and Shaykh Abū al-Wafa Thana,llah Amratsarī, the author of Tafsīr Thanaī (d. 1367/1947) are among the famous scholars of the Salafi school in India. This paper compares between the Salafi schools in India and Arab Peninsular in three branch issues namely amīn bi-al-jahr, raf'al-yadayn and taqlīd. The research methods are the textual analysis and the comparison between the juristic schools. Its results indicate that there are differences among the Salafi schools in India and Arab Peninsular in the issues focused in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]