The concept of Al-I‘Tibar and the fall of the Umayyads: an explicatory appraisal and its contemporaneity in understanding the present travails of Muslims
This article uses the Quranic philosophy of history, al-I‘tibar, in understanding what’s, why’s and how’s, which brought about the fall of the Umayyads. Based on this and the fact that history may, as Jeffrey Bartholet observes, “feed on itself,” the factors that caused the downfall of the Umayyad...
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IDOSI
2011
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/24132/1/The_Concept_of_Al-I%E2%80%98Tibar_and_the_Fall.pdf |