(1005–1089), Sufi religious figure. Khwaja Abdullah Ansari was a Sufi sheikh from Heart, Afghanistan, and a Hanbali traditionist, renowned for his sermons in rhymed prose and for his polemics against rationalist theology (kalam). Ansari, a...

Jabir ibn Abdullah was a Sahaba of Muhammad. His full name was Jabir ibn Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram Al-Ansari (Arabic: جابر بن عبدالله بن عمرو بن حرام الأنصاري). Jabir was a renowned for being a companion of the...

The political uprisings that started in al-Andalus in the time of the amir Muhammad I (852-886) continued and reached momentum during the emirate of 'Abd Allah (888-912). Social and ethnic tensions, political revolts, disobedience and insubordination were rampant throughout the whole reign of the...

S. N. Haq has produced a detailed study of one of the Jabirian alchemical texts, the Kitab al-Ahjar. In the opening chapter of the first section of his book, Haq discusses the complex of problems associated with the Jabirian corpus, paying particularly close...