1 |
Man's ability to think |
2 |
The world of the
things that come into being as the result of
action, materializes through thinking |
3 |
The experimental intellect and how it
comes into being |
4 |
The sciences
(knowledge) of human beings and the sciences
(knowledge) of angels |
5 |
The sciences (knowledge) of the prophets |
6 |
Man is essentially
ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring
knowledge |
7 |
Scientific instruction is a craft |
8 |
The sciences are
numerous only where civilization is large and
sedentary culture highly developed |
9 |
The various sciences that exist in
contemporary civilization |
10 |
The Qur'anic
sciences of Qur'an interpretation and Qur'an reading
Qur'an interpretation |
11 |
The sciences concerned with Prophetic
traditions |
12 |
Jurisprudence and its subdivision,
inheritance laws B The science of inheritance laws |
13 |
The science of the
principles of jurisprudence and its subdivisions,
dialectics and controversial questions |
14 |
The science of speculative theology |
15 |
An exposition of
ambiguity in the Quran and the Sunnah and
of the resulting dogmatic schools among
both the orthodox and the innovators |
16 |
The science of Sufism
|
17 |
The science of dream interpretation
|
18 |
The various kinds of intellectual
sciences |
19 |
The sciences
concerned with numbers. The craft of calculation.
Algebra. Business
arithmetic. Inheritance laws |
20 |
The geometrical
sciences. Spherical, figures, conic sections, and
mechanics. - Surveying.
Optics. |
21 |
Astronomy.
Astronomical tables |
22 |
The science of logic |
23 |
Physics |
24 |
The science of medicine |
25 |
The science of agriculture |
26 |
The science of metaphysics |
27 |
The sciences of
sorcery and talismans.
The evil eye |
28 |
The science of the
secrets of letters. The Za'irajah. On learning hidden
secrets from letter
connections |
29 |
The science of alchemy |
30 |
A refutation of
philosophy. The corruption of the students of
philosophy |
31 |
A refutation of
astrology. The weakness of its achievements.
The harmfulness of its goal |
32 |
A denial of the
effectiveness of alchemy. The impossibility of
its existence. The harm that arises from
practicing it |
33 |
The purposes that
must be kept in mind in literary composition
and that alone are to be considered valid |
34 |
The great number
of scholarly works available is an obstacle
on the path to attaining scholarship |
35 |
The great number
of brief handbooks available on scholarly
subjects is detrimental to the process of
instruction |
36 |
The right attitude
in scientific
instruction and toward the
method of giving such instruction |
37 |
Study of the auxiliary sciences should
not be prolonged, and their problems should not be
treated in detail |
38 |
The instruction
of children and the different methods employed in the Muslim cities |
39 |
Severity to students does them harm |
40 |
A scholar's
education is greatly improved by traveling in quest
of knowledge and meeting the
authoritative teachers of his time |
41 |
Scholars are, of
all people, those least familiar with the ways
of politics |
42 |
Most of the scholars in Islam have been
non-Arabs (Persians) |
43 |
A person whose
first language was not Arabic finds it harder
than the native speaker of Arabic to
acquire the sciences |
44 |
The sciences concerned with the Arabic
language 319 Grammar, 320. - The science of
lexicography, 325. - The science of syntax and style and
literary criticism, 332. - The science of literature, |
45 |
Language is a technical habit |
46 |
Contemporary
Arabic is an independent language different
from the languages of the Mudar and the
Himyar |
47 |
The language of the sedentary and urban
population is an independent language d fferent from
the language of the Mudar |
48 |
Instruction in the Mudar language |
49 |
The habit of the Mudar language is
different from Arabic philology and can dispense with it
in the process of instruction |
50 |
The interpretation
and real meaning of the word "taste" according to the
technical terminology of literary critics. An
explanation
of why Arabicized non-Arabs as a rule do
not have it |
51 |
The urban
population is in general d fcient in obtaining the
linguistic habit that results from instruction. The more
remote urban people are from the Arabic language, the
more difficult it is for them to
obtain it |
52 |
The division of speech into poetry and
prose |
53 |
The ability to
write both good poetry and good prose is only
very rarely found together in one person |
54 |
The craft of poetry and the way of
learning it |
55 |
Poetry and prose work with words, and not
with ideas |
56 |
The linguistic
habit is obtained by much. memorizing. The good quality
of the linguistic habit is the result of the good
quality of
the memorized material |
57 |
An explanation of the meaning of natural
and contrived speech. How contrived speech may be either
good or de cient |
58 |
People of rank are above cultivating
poetry |
59 |
Contemporary Arab poetry, Bedouin and
urban The Spanish muwashshabahs
and zajals |