Critical Edition

The seven celebrated pre-Islamic odes (Muʻallaqat) presented alongside a concise commentary, Sharh al-Muʻallaqat al-Sabʻ, by the Indian scholar Shaykh ʻAbd al-Rahim al-Safifuri (d. 1267 AH / 1850 CE). The commentary...

A scholarly marginal commentary (hashiya) on the Nur al-Idah wa-Najat al-Arwah, the celebrated Hanafi fiqh text of Imam Abu al-Ikhlas Hasan ibn ʻAmmar al-Shurnbulali al-Misri al-Hanafi (994–1069 AH / 1586–1659...

A collection of shorter scholarly treatises by Imam Muhammad Akhtar Rida al-Qadiri al-Azhari, widely known by his honorific Taj al-Shariʻah (Crown of the Shariʻah), the great grandson of Imam Ahmad...

A scholarly work gathering the hadith evidence for the qualities and characteristics that distinguish the believer (muʻmin) from the hypocrite (munafiq) in the Islamic tradition. Drawing on the authentic hadith...

A major work on Islamic logic by one of the foremost logicians of nineteenth-century South Asia, accompanied by the hashiya Al-Mirdah ʻala al-Mirqah by Shaykh Muhammad ʻAbd al-Hakim Sharaf al-Qadiri...

A jurisprudential treatise on the precise measurement and volume of the two qullas (qullatayn), the threshold quantity of water above which impurities do not render it ritually impure according to...

One of the most important works of Hanafi usul al-fiqh in the classical period, accompanied by the hashiya Al-Taʻlliq al-Manʻut ʻala Musallam al-Thubut by Shaykh Barakatullah ibn Muhammad Ahmad al-Farangi...

A marginal commentary (hashiya) by Imam Nur al-Din al-Najjari on a commentary of al-Waraqat, the concise and authoritative primer in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) by Imam al-Juwayni....

A commentary on the text Durus al-Balaghah (Lessons in Rhetoric), a foundational text in Arabic rhetoric (balaghah) widely studied in traditional madrasa institutions. This is the first critical edition of...

An extensive marginal commentary (hashiya) by Imam Hasan al-'Attar, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and one of the foremost scholars of the nineteenth century, on the Risalah al-Waldiyyah, a classical text the...

A commentary on the Tahdhib al-Mantiq of Imam Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani, one of the foundational texts in classical Islamic logic and among the most widely taught works in the traditional...

The first comprehensive biography of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan al-Hanafi al-Maturidi to be written in the Arabic language, tracing his life, scholarly formation, and vast intellectual contributions to the Islamic...

A critical edition presenting three complementary works on hadith terminology in a single volume. The primary text is Nuzhat al-Nazar fi Tawdih Nukhbat al-Fikr by Imam Ibn Hajar al-ʻAsqalani (d....

A commentary on a versified text (nazm) covering the science of Quranic exegesis (tafsir). Works of this kind serve as pedagogical aids, making the principles and content of tafsir accessible...

A commentary on the Ten Categories (al-Maqulat al-'Ashr), the Aristotelian logical categories as they were received, transmitted, and critically engaged within the Islamic philosophical and logical tradition. The ten categories...

A commentary by Imam Ahmad al-Dardir on the text known as Tuhfat al-Ikhwan, a classical work on Balaghah. Imam Al-Dardir was one of the foremost Egyptian Maliki scholars of the...

A collected edition of 40 shorter treatises and epistles of Imam Muhammad ʻAbd al-Hayy al-Laknawi al-Hanafi, one of the most prolific Islamic scholars of the nineteenth century, spanning eight volumes...

A commentary on the al-Awamil al-Mi'ah al-Birgawiyyah, the hundred governing factors in Arabic grammar as compiled by the Ottoman scholar Birgili Mehmed Efendi (Imam al-Birgawi, 929–981 AH / 1523–1573 CE)....

A marginal commentary (hashiya) by the seventeenth-century scholar Mir Zahid al-Hirawi on the text associated with Mulla Jalal al-Din al-Dawwani. The Mulla Jalal text refers to his commentary on the...

Al-Sharifiyyah is a celebrated treatise on ʿIlm al-Munazarah (the Science of Argumentation) by the renowned scholar Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani. This edition features the commentary of Shaykh Abd al-Rashid al-Jaunpuri, who...