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How to define a drink called nabīdh has come up multiple times on my feed recently. Nabīdh was an intoxicating beverage distinguished from khamr, grape wine, which the Qurʾan prohibits
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This tweet brought to mind a fascinating debate in early fiqh about intoxicants. The word translated as ‘wine’ here -- نبيذ|nabīḏ -- differs from the qurʾanic word for wine (ḫamr|خمر),
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The Ḥanafī jurist al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 933) states in his Mukhtaṣar ikhtilāf al-ʿulamāʾ that the standard view of Abū Ḥanīfah’s (d. 767) school was that a non-Muslim living in Muslim lands,
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After seeing this tweet I looked for an early account of this attempt to destroy the pyramids during the era of the crusades. It turns up in the writings of
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