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The books of Dr. Hamdy Abdel Aal

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The Method of the Righteous Predecessors in Creed

Manhaj al-salaf fī al-ʻaqīdah

Arabic titleمنهج السلف في العقيدة

Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait · 1984
Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait · 1986
University of Toronto Libraries (Downsview)
Also held by: Princeton University Library, Kuwait University Libraries (Sharia Library), German union catalogue (K10plus) (record 1148502742, 1984)

Religion and the marks of the true religion; creed and its sources; tawhid; imitation versus reasoning; faith and Islam; the Qur’an’s proofs of God; God’s names and attributes; divine decree (qadar) and the position of the salaf. (From the publisher’s contents list)

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The Saba’ites: Method and Aim

al-Sabaʼiyūn : manhajan wa-ghāyah

Arabic titleالسبئيون: منهجاً وغاية

Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait · 1985 · ed. 1 · 117 pp.
University of Toronto Libraries (Downsview, BP195 .S12 A22 1985)
Also held by: University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Abdullah ibn Saba; occultation and return; the imamate and the sanctification of the Imam; taqiyya; bada’; incarnation and transmigration; methods of interpretation; forgery of texts; bloodshed; the making of propagandists. (From the publisher’s contents list)

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Ethics and Its Criterion: Between Man-Made Systems and Religion

al-Akhlāq wa-miʻyāruhā bayna al-waḍʻīyah wa-al-dīn

Arabic titleالأخلاق ومعيارها بين الوضعية والدين

Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait · 1985 · ed. 3
Dar al-Qalam, Cairo · 2002 · ed. 3 · 174 pp.
University of Toronto Libraries (Robarts, BJ1291 .A214 1985)
Also held by: Kuwait University Libraries (Central Library), College of Sharia Sciences Library (Oman)

The definition and aim of ethics; the moral criterion in Greek and modern philosophy (Kant, Hobbes, Bentham); the moral criterion in Islam and the failure of the positivist criterion. (From the publisher’s contents list)

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Milla and Nihla in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

al-Millah wa-al-niḥlah fī al-Yahūdīyah, al-Masīḥīyah, al-Islām

Arabic titleالملة والنحلة - في اليهودية والمسيحية والإسلام

Dar al-Qalam, Kuwait · 1989 · ed. 1 · 216 pp.
University of Toronto Libraries (Robarts, BL80.2 .A125 1989)
Also held by: Bibliotheca Alexandrina (copy barcode 0124658), German union catalogue (K10plus) (record 1092336060, 1989)

Milla and nihla in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: the sacred books, beliefs and sects of each, and the Gospel of Barnabas. (From the publisher’s contents list)

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