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Tadhkirah (other)
Tadhkira (), Arabic for "memorandum" or "admonition", is frequently used as part of the title of literary works of the nature of authoritative collections or summaries. It may refer to the following works: *''al-Tadhkirat al-Harawīya fī al-ḥiyal al-ḥarabīya'' ("al-Harawi’s Admonition Regarding War Stratagems") by Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi (d. 1215) *''Tadhkirat al-Khawāṣ'' by Sibt ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1256) *Tazkirat al-Awliya, Tadhkirat al-Awliyā’ (13th century), biographies of Sufi saints. *''al-Tadhkira fī ʿilm al-Hayʾa'' "Memento on Astronomy", a work on the science of astronomy by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274) *Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓẓ (14th century), biographies of hadith masters by al-Dhahabi *''Sharḥ al-tadhkira'' (16th century), a commentary on al-Tusi’s ''Memento on Astronomy'' by al-Birjandi * A work by Dawud al-Antaki (d. 1599) on medicine, natural history and the occult sciences *''Tadhkirat al-Nisyān'' (c. 1750), a biographical dictionary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadhkirah (Ahmadiyya)
''Tadhkira'' (تذکرة) is a collection of the revelations, dreams and visions of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The English rendering of the Urdu, Arabic and Persian text was initially done by Sir Chaudry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan in 1976. The present revised edition has been published in 2019 under the auspices of Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Imam and Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, fifth successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, by Islam International Publications Ltd. Dreams, visions and revelations The Quran claims that true dreams, visions and verbal revelations are a bounty of God and descend from him. The Quran claims these experiences are signs of the existence of God. All human beings are potentially capable of these experiences. God speaks to man The main theme of this collection is to testify the Quran's claim that God speaks to man. It is explained that God may speak to man in at least three different ways; direct verba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Identity Card
The Afghan Tazkira (; ) is an official national identity document issued to every national and citizen of Afghanistan, including a member of the Afghan diaspora around the world. The document is used to obtain an electronic Afghan identity card (e-Tazkira), which is valid for up to 10 years and required for many things such as employment, registering in school, operating a business, buying or renting a house, opening a bank account, sending or receiving money through Western Union, purchasing a SIM card, obtaining a passport, booking airline tickets, staying in hotels, etc. The documents serve as proof of identity and residency but more importantly Afghan nationality. Both the Tazkira certificate and e-Tazkira are issued by the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA), which is headquartered in Kabul but has offices by the name of Asan Khedmat (Easy Services) in various provinces of Afghanistan. The Afghan Tazkira, which is older than 100 years, has been moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhikr
(; ; ) is a form of Islamic worship in which phrases or prayers are repeatedly recited for the purpose of remembering God. It plays a central role in Sufism, and each Sufi order typically adopts a specific ''dhikr'', accompanied by specific posture, breathing, and movement. In Sufism, ''dhikr'' refers to both the act of this remembrance as well as the prayers used in these acts of remembrance. ''Dhikr'' usually includes the names of God or supplication from the Quran or hadith. It may be counted with either one's fingers or prayer beads, and may be performed alone or with a collective group. A person who recites ''dhikr'' is called a ''dhākir'' (; ; ). The Quran frequently refers to itself and other scriptures and prophetic messages as "reminders" (''dhikrah'', ''tadhkīrah''), which is understood as a call to "remember" (''dhikr'') an innate knowledge of God humans already possess. The Quran uses the term ''dhikr'' to denote the reminder from God conveyed through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shams Al-Din Al-Khafri
Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Khafri al-Kashi (died 1550), known as Khafri, was an Iranian religious scholar and astronomer at the beginning of the Safavid dynasty. Before the arrival of Sheikh Baha'i in Iran, he was appointed as the major Shia jurist in the Safavid court. He was born in the city of Ḵafr, south east of Firuzābād in the region of Fārs. His exact date of birth is unknown but historical accounts estimate the date of his birth to be around the 1480s. He wrote on philosophy, religion, and astronomy, with the latter including a commentary on al-Tusi and critiques of al-Shirazi. Al-Khafri wrote works on theology and astronomy, indicating that Islamic scholars in his time and place saw no contradictions between Islam and science. Astronomy Khafri was a theoretical astronomer who developed new planetary theories in a period beyond the supposed period of decline of Islamicate science, and is one of many examples that help dispel the theory that Islamicate sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tezkire
''Tezkire'' (), from Arabic '' tadhkirah'' meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum",Kiliç, Filiz. (2007). “The Tezkires of Poets: Indispendable [sicSources in Our Literature History” translated from Turkish to English by the website of publication. ''Türkiye Arastirmalari Literatür Dergisi'' (''TALID'') ''5''(10): 564 (abstract; entire essay is 543-564), talid.org. Accessed May 5, 2023. is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. The most widely known are the ''tezkires'' of poets, but the books also focused on the works of government officials and artists in general. First seen in early Arab literature before the 10th century, they then made their way into Persian literature and later Ottoman literature. One of the most famous Persian ''tezkires'' is the Tazkirat al-Awliya of Fariduddin Attar. The most important ''tezkire'' in Chagatai-Turkic is ''Majolis un-Nafois'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadhkirat Al-Fuqahā
Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā (Memorandum for Jurists) is a book on Shiite jurisprudence written by Allamah Al-Hilli The book was written at the request of Allamah Al-Hilli's son, Fakhr Al Muhaqqiq. Overview The book of Tadhkirat al-Fuqahā is considered one of the greatest books on Shiite jurisprudence or fiqh. The book is cited by other scholars as a reference. Allamah Hilli mainly points to the opinions and ideas of Shaykh Tusi rather than those of other Shiite Scholars. Allamah Al-Hilli writes about his intention to express and explain the summaries of indult (Fatwa) of the jurist and rules of Scholars (Ulama) according to "best explanations, the most correct way, the most rightness style, and the most confident methods". The book has been summarized by Ibn Motawwej Bahrani, one of the pupils of Allamah Al-Hilli, in a book called ''Mukhtasar Al Tadhkirah''. Content The author divided the book into four rules: on praying, on transactions, on unilateral obligation, on judgments. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and '' Mahdī'', in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as the '' Mujaddid'' (centennial reviver) of the 14th Islamic century. Born to a family with aristocratic roots in Qadian, rural Punjab, Ahmad emerged as a writer and debater for Islam. When he was just over forty years of age, his father died and around that time he claimed that God began to communicate with him. In 1889, he took a pledge of allegiance from forty of his supporters at Ludhiana and formed a community of followers upon what he claimed was divine instruction, stipulating ten conditions of initiation, an event that marks the establishment of the Ahmadiyya movement. The mission of the movement, according to him, was the reinstatement of the absolute oneness of God, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakim Abdul Aziz
Abdul Aziz (''Muhammad 'Abd al 'Aziz''; 1855–1911) was a prominent Unani physician in British India. Biography Hakim Abdul Aziz was born into a family of Kashmiri migrants, and is regarded as the founder of the Lucknow tradition in Unani medicine. He started practising medicine in 1877. In 1902, he founded the Takmil al Tibb School at Lucknow for research and excellence in Unani Medicine. The earliest biographical work on Hakim Abdul Aziz and his philosophical approach in Unani medicine was written by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman. He wrote memoirs and life history of 'Azizi Family', prescriptions and formulations of Hakim Abdul Waheed, Unani formularies used by Azizi Family of Lucknow. Epistemology Abdul Aziz’s approach with regards to Unani medicine was that of a puritan and hence, significantly different from other notable practitioners like Hakim Ajmal Khan who advocated incorporation of concepts from alternative medical systems. Consequently, the Delhi and Lucknow sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibt Ibn Al-Jawzi
Shams al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn Kizoghlu (c. 581AH/1185–654AH/1256), popularly known as Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī () was a writer, preacher and historian. Biography Born in Baghdad, the son of a Turkish freedman and Ibn al-Jawzi's daughter, he was raised by his grandfather. After his grandfather's death he moved to Damascus, where he worked under the Ayyubids Sultans al-Mu'azzam, an-Nasir Dawud, and al-Ashraf. In 1229, on an-Nasir's command, he gave a fiery sermon in the Umayyad Mosque denouncing the treaty of Jaffa with the Crusaders as Damascus prepared for the coming siege at the hands of al-Ashraf. He is the grandson of the Hanbali scholar Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi. His title "Sibt ibn al-Jawzi" denotes that he was the ''sibṭ'' (grandson) of Ibn al-Jawzi from his daughter's side. Unlike his Hanbali grandfather, he was of the Hanafi madhhab, which was the judicial school common to those of Turkish descent and preferred by the Ayyubid Sultans. He has also been descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Skinner (East India Company Officer)
Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel James Skinner (1778 – 4 December 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer and soldier of the East India Company of British India. Prior to this he also served briefly as a mercenary in the Maratha Empire, Maratha Army. He became known as ''Sikandar Sahib'' later in life and is most known for two cavalry regiments he raised for the British at Hansi in 1803, known as 1st Horse (Skinner's Horse), 1st Skinner's Horse and 3rd Skinner's Horse (formerly 2nd Skinner's Horse), which are still units of the Indian Army. Born to a Scottish people, Scottish father and an Indian mother from the Bhojpuri region, Bhojpur region, he was fluent in Persian language, Persian, the court and intellectual language of India in his day. Skinner composed several works in the language, including an extensively illustrated manuscript ''Kitāb-i Tashrīḥ al-Aqvām'' (History of the Origin and Distinguishing Marks of the Different Castes of India), now held by the Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
