Umar F Abd‐Allah

Biographic Data

ID5808485
NAMEUmar F Abd‐Allah
GIVEN NAMESUmar F
FAMILY NAMEAbd‐Allah
SIGNATUREALLAH U F A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Mālik and Medina

    Umar F Abd-Allah, Umar F Abd‐Allah et al.BOOKMālik and Medina2013

    This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately concurred on a “four-source” (Qurʾān, sunna, consensus, and analogy) theo…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology

    Open AccessMuhammad Abdel Haleem, Khalid Yahya Blankinship et al.BOOKThe Cambridge Companion to…2008

    This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial atte…

  • A Muslim in Victorian America

    Umar F Abd-Allah, Umar F Abd‐AllahBOOKA Muslim in Victorian America2006

    Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. Little is known about Islam in Victorian America. This book is a biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest American Muslims to achieve public renown. Webb was a central figure of American Islam during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A native of the Hudson Valley, he was a journalist, editor, and civil servant. Raised a…

  • Passage to India

    Umar F Abd‐AllahCHAPTERA Muslim in Victorian America2006

    This chapter focuses on Webb's life following his resignation as US consul to Manila. It describes Webb's Oriental tour aimed at gaining support for his American Mission, which took him to Burma, and then India, his chief destination, where he spent almost half the journey. The excursion kept him in the public eye and introduced him to the practice of public lecturing, a craft that would be of great service to him in America. He also caught the a…

  • Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐AllahARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1985

  • Islamic Philosophical Theology . Parviz Morewedge

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐AllahARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1985

  • Syria

    John F Devlin, Robert Olson et al.ARTICLEMERIP Reports1984

  • The Islamic Struggle in Syria

    John C Campbell, Umar F Abd-Allah et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1983Cited by: 8

  • Islamic Legal Philosophy

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐AllahARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1982

  • Jihad in Mediaeval and Modern Islam

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐Allah et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1982

  • Five Tracts of Ḥasan Al-Bannāʾ (1906-1949)

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐Allah et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1982

  • Arabic and Islamic Garland

    Umar Abd-Allāh, Umar F Abd‐AllahARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1980