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Mawsu'at at-Tullab al-Muhtasara lil 'Aqaid wal Adyan
Abdur-Razzak Abdullah Hash
ISBN 978-574-518-495-5
Pages : 336
Price : RM 65.00 / € 30.00
Year : 2015

The Concise Students Encyclopedia of Religious Belief Systems and
Faiths presents a concise purview about the major world religious
faiths that have shaped the life of millions in the past and present.
It provides a short account about the basic structures of the major
religious belief systems for the students and readers of comparative
religion. Besides the preface which presents a review of the major
academic works and manuscripts written on the scholarship of com-
parative religion, the subject of this encyclopedia is divided into three
themes. The first theme consists of three chapters; chapter one addresses worldviews and
belief systems, while chapter two highlights the meaning and conceptions of “religious ex-
perience”, whilst chapter three highlights the intellectual debates about why and when reli-
gious experience appeared in the history of mankind. The second theme consists of seven
chapters, and addresses eastern religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism and Zoroastrianism. The third theme presents a bit detailed
discussions about the Abrahamic religious traditions, i.e., Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Muraj'at fi al-Naqd al-Adaby al-Qadym
Nasr el-Din Ibrahim Ahmed Hussein
ISBN 978-967-418-452-0
Pages : 174
Price : RM 55.00 / € 20.00
Year : 2016 (2nd Edition)
The book presents a critical and analytical study of the scope of
Traditional Criticism (ARAB 3221) which used as a teaching subject
for the third year students at the Department of Arabic Language and
Literature, IIUM. Focus of the book is on the criticism study of the
early periods, like the Islamic Era, Umayyad, and Abbasid presenting
ISBN 978-967-418-452-0
some methodological rulings commenced during that time with a
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study, discussion and analysis. The book present a dynamic mode of
the methodological criticism in those rarely traditional works that were
known as the Books of Tabaqat al Shuara’ (The Classes of Poets). It observed that there
are principles, patterns and manners that were used by those writers in their classes. It also
expresses their methodology, manners, and patterns used by them in the study of literature
and its criticism, and in the classification of their writings. The first chapter out of four studies
Fuhul al Shuara of al Asma’i and the second chapter examine Tabaqat Fuhul al Shuara of Ibn
Salama. The third chapter deals with al Sha’r wa al Shuara of Ibn Qutaibah and the fourth
chapter examines Tabaqat al Shuara of Ibn al Mu’taz.