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Due to high demand, Maktabah Samarkand is proud to announce that we are now taking pre-orders for Taj al-Shari’ah’s explanation of “al-Hidayah” alongside Ibn Kamal Pasha’s explanation of al-Hidayah in 13 volumes.

This book will arrive in September, but due to high demand we are happy to take pre-orders and reservations from now.

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Please do not forget our brothers and sisters in occupied Palestine and across the world.

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مجرد مقالات الأشعري

An important work in Ash’ari Kalam by one of it’s greatest and earliest theologians, Imam Ibn Fūrāk al-Shafi’i al-Ash’ari

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السواد الأعظم

This is a text which was written by al-Ḥakīm al-Samarkandī at the request of the Sultan of his time and he was specifically elected to compose a catechism by the council of scholars of Bukhāra

Thus, in content, this text arguably pre dates Imam al-Hudā al-Māturīdī.

Even Western academics profess the importance of this text as it is a demonstration of the creed of Transoxianian scholarship.

Dr. Ulrich Rudolph writes:

“Given these circumstances it is clear how important the K. al-Sawad al-A’zam is for the sake of our becoming better acquainted with Transoxanian theology. This text is not merely the representation of a few scholars' teachings, but is, to a certain extent, a "public text" in which a wide theological consensus is expressed.”

Rudolph, U. (2014). Al-Maturidi and the Development of Sunni Theology in Samarqand. Netherlands:
Brill. p.101

He also writes:

“The abovementioned Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad (279–95/892–907), recognized as the actual founder of Sāmānid power, called the scholars of Samarqand, Bukhārā, and other cities of Transoxania together and requested that they compile the orthodox view of belief in a single creed. The goal of this undertaking was to combat various heresies, which in the meanwhile had become native to the region. This also meant, de facto, that Ḥanafite theology was to receive a fixed catechism, the significance of which was compounded since it was issued by the double authority of the ʿulamāʾ and the political rulers.

In keeping with this ambitious goal, the scholar commissioned to author the text was of generally acknowledged rank. The choice fell on Abū l-Qāsim Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, called al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī (d. 342/953),who was identified as a religious authority in various subjects.”

Rudolph, U. (2014). Al-Maturidi and the Development of Sunni Theology in Samarqand. Netherlands:
Brill. p.99

Note: (Maktabah Samarkand does not endorse Ulrich Rudolph but the purpose of the quotation was to highlight the significance which even non Muslim’s acknowledge of this text.)

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