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n.13, 142–43

Universities, Islamic, 179–80

Uqubat
(criminal law), 151

‘Urf
(custom), 128, 195–96.
See also

Custom

Usili
(rationalist) school, 226 Usury (
riba
), 165, 180

‘Uthman b. ‘Affan (caliph), 201, 213 n.14; compilation of Qur’an, 51, 189–90; Kharijites and, 192; political

conflicts, 189, 219, 220

Verbs, 82, 94 n.24

Verse(s) (
ayat
), 48–49; arrangement, 51, 55–56, 77; on conduct, 54–55;

division, 78; legal, 152; Light, 69; on

prayer, 15; and signs (
ayat
), 83, 101;

Throne, 53, 69

Vilayat-i fatqih
(juristic authority), 229 Virgin birth (of Jesus), 117, 122 n.18 Virtue.
See Ihsan

Voice, in Qur’an, 85

Al-Wa‘d wa ’l-wa‘id
(‘‘the promise and the threat’’), 198

Wahhabis, 204, 239

Wahy. See Revelation

Wajib
(obligatory action), 175

Walaya,
236, 250, 255

‘‘We,’’ in Qur’an, 86 Wealth, 20, 40, 54

Westernization, and Islamic law, 157, 177

Western Muslims, and
Sunna,
143–44 Wisdom (
hikma
), 48, 126

Women: Hadith scholars, 138–39; on

Hajj,
29, 32; mosque attendance,

167–68; prayer rules, 12, 13–14; prophets, 106–107; testimony by,

166.
See also
Marriage law Women’s section (
harim
), 13–14
Word of God. See
Revelation

Word of Muhammad. See
Hadith Worship: command to, 8, 33, 34.
See

also ‘Ibadat

Wudu
’ (ablutions), 12, 131

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Yahya ibn Hamza, al-Mu‘ayyad Bi’llah, 242

Yahya ibn Muadh al-Razi, 250 Al-Yaman, Hadhayfa Ibn, 189 Yathrib, 26.
See also
Medina

Al-Yawm al-Qiyama,
38–39

Yazid, 192, 220

Yemen, 238, 239, 240, 241–42

‘‘You,’’ in Qur’an, 85–86 Yusuf, Hajjaj Ibn, 193

Al-Zabur
(Psalms of David), 36, 113

Zakat
(mandatory charity; Alms Tax;

Purification Tax), 17–20, 41 n.6, 54,

54, 168.
See also Sadaqa

Zam Zam, well of, 28, 31

Zanni
rulings, 153

Zarruq, Ahmad, 131

Zayd ibn ‘Ali (imam), 163

Zayd ibn Thabit, 189–90, 212 n.4

Zaydi school of law, 136, 162, 163,

240–41

Ziyara,
263

Z-K-A (root), 17

Zubayr (Companion of the Prophet), 190, 201

Al-Zubayr, ‘Abdallah Ibn, 190

A
BOUT THE
E
DITOR AND
C
ONTRIBUTORS

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VINCENT J. CORNELL is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University. From 2000 to 2006, he was Professor of History and Director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas. From 1991 to 2000, he taught at Duke University. Dr. Cornell has published two major books,
The Way of Abu Madyan
(Cambridge, U.K.: The Islamic Texts Society, 1996) and
Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism
(Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1998), and over 30 articles. His interests cover the entire spectrum of Islamic thought from Sufi to theology and Islamic law. He has lived and worked in Morocco for nearly six years and has spent considerable time both teaching and doing research in Egypt, Tunisia, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He is currently working on projects on Islamic ethics and moral theology in conjunction with the Shalom Hartmann Institute and the Elijah Interfaith Institute in Jerusalem. For the past fi years (2002–2006), he has been a key participant in the Building Bridges Seminars hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

KARIMA DIANE ALAVI is Director of Education at the Dar al-Islam educational center in Abiquiu, New Mexico. She presents workshops on Islam both at Dar al-Islam and at national conferences. She has been interviewed on Spirituality TV and on National Public Radio. In the 1970s, she taught at the University of Isfahan, Iran. Upon her return to the United States, she taught Islamic Studies at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. With Susan Douglass, she authored the curriculum unit
Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions Between Europeans and Muslims.
Alavi has also published articles for social studies publications and for Muslim and Christian magazines.

FARHAD DAFTARY is Associate Director and Head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He is Consulting Editor of
Encyclopaedia Iranica
and a

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member of the Advisory Board of the
Encyclopaedia of Islam
(third edition). Dr. Daftary has written extensively on Ismaili Shi‘ism. He is the author of
The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrines
(1990),
The Assassin Legends
(1994),
A Short History of the Ismailis
(1998), and
Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies
(2004).

HAMZA YUSUF HANSON embraced Islam in 1977 and studied in the Middle East, North and West Africa, and the United States. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic disciplines including the science of Hadith and has chains of transmission back to the Prophet Muhammad. In 1996, he founded the Zaytuna Institute, an Islamic seminary in Northern California. He currently lectures in the United States and other countries and is the editor of
Seasons,
the journal of the Zaytuna Institute. He is the author of
Purification of the Heart
and has translated several Islamic classical texts from the Arabic language.

MOHAMMAD HASHIM KAMALI is Professor of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence and Dean of ISTAC (International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization), International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He studied law at Kabul University and was Public Prosecutor with the Ministry of Justice in Afghanistan. He was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin, Germany, from 2000 to 2001. He served on the Constitutional Review Commission of Afghanistan, May–September 2003, during which period he was appointed as its Interim Chairman. He has published 15 books and over 100 articles on Islamic law and related fi ds. He is on the advisory boards of 10 academic journals in Malaysia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, India, and Pakistan. Since May 2005, he has been a member of the UN-sponsored Constitutional Law Experts Working Group on the constitution of Iraq.

AHMET T. KARAMUSTAFA is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of
God’s Unruly Friends
(1994), a book on ascetic movements in medieval Islam, and
Sufism: The Formative Period
(2006), a comprehensive historical overview of early Sufism. He has also written several articles for
Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies
(1992). Currently, he is working on a book project titled
Islamic Perspectives on Religion.

JOSEPH LUMBARD is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. Formerly an Advisor on Interfaith Affairs to King Abdullah II of Jordan, he has published articles on Sufi and Islamic philosophy and has lectured around the world. In 2004, he published

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the edited volume
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition

(Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books).

BARRY C. M
C
DONALD edited
Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred
(Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 2003). He also coedited, with Patrick Laude,
Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
(Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 2004). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including
Sacred Web, Crosscurrents, Sophia, The American Muslim,
and
Sufi.

MUSTANSIR MIR is University Professor of Islamic Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio. His research interests include Qur’anic studies, Islamic intellectual history, and studies of the South Asian Muslim reformer, Muhammad Iqbal. Mir is the author of
Verbal Idioms of the Qur’an
(1989),
Tulip in the Desert: A Selection of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal
(2000), and
Understanding the Islamic Scripture: Selected Passages from the Qur’an,
translated and with commentary (forthcoming).

DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE is a widely regarded American Muslim poet. His fi book of poems,
Dawn Visions,
was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books in San Francisco (1964). He became a Sufi Muslim in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and lived and traveled in Morocco, Spain, Algeria, and Nigeria. Upon his return to California, he published
The Desert is the Only Way Out
in 1985 and
Chronicles of Akhira
in 1986. A resident of Philadelphia since 1990, he has published
The Ramadan Sonnets
(1996) and
The Blind Beekeeper
(2002). He has also been the major editor for a number of works, including
The Burda of Shaykh Busiri
(2003), translated by Hamza Yusuf, and
State of Siege
(2004), the poetry of the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Munir Akash.

JAMES WINSTON MORRIS is Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has previously taught Islamic and comparative religious studies at Princeton University, Oberlin College, the Sorbonne (EPHE) in Paris, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. His fi d research and studies of living spiritual traditions have taken him to Iran, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and Southeast Asia. He has published widely on many areas of religious thought and practice, including the Islamic humanities, Islamic philosophy, Sufism, the Qur’an, and Shiite thought. His most recent books are
Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation
(2004),
The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Ara- bi’s ‘Meccan Illuminations’
(2005),
Knowing the Spirit
(2006), and
Open- ings: From the Qur’an to the Islamic Humanities
(forthcoming).

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AZIM NANJI is Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Previously, he held academic and administrative appointments at the University of Florida and other American and Canadian universities. He has published widely and is the recipient of several academic awards. Professor Nanji’s publications include
The Nizari Ismaili Tradition in the Indo- Pakistan Subcontinent
(1976),
The Muslim Almanac
(1996), and
Mapping Islamic Studies
(1997).

FEISAL ABDUL RAUF is the Founder and Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, a multi-faith organization whose objective is to heal the relation- ship between the Muslim World and the West. He is also the Founder of ASMA Society, serves as the Imam of Masjid Al-Farah in New York City, and is an active member of the World Economic Forum’s C-100, which works to promote understanding and dialogue between the Western and the Islamic worlds. He was recently awarded the Peacebuilder Award by the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Imam Feisal frequently interviews with various media and has appeared on CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, and BBC. His published writings include
Islam: A Search for Meaning
and
Islam: A Sacred Law.
His latest book,
What’s Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West,
was chosen by the
Christian Science Monitor
as one of the top four nonfiction books of 2004.