The olive has been cultivated since prehistoric times. While its culinary uses are well-known, its medicinal applications, which involve the leaves and the oil, are less familiar, particularly outside of the Islamic and Mediterranean world. The Muslim world, however, has always revered the olive as a source of food, oil, and medicine. The full appreciation of the olive was the direct result of both Qur’anic and Prophetic guidance.

Anglophone scholars of Islam, who do not have reading comprehension of French, will be familiar with Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882) through his infamous Inequality of Human Races, and through his reputation as “the father of racist ideology.” They may also have come across The World of the Persians and Selected Political Writings, as well as some of his novels.

Malcolm X: The Power of Speech1

Jihad in Islam

The Perfect Human: The Universal Synthesis of the Divine Names1

The Origin of the Name Allah1

The Image of the Road in Islam1

Tawhid in Theological Mode1

The Arabic-Islamic Influence on the Poem of the Cid1

A Comparative Study of the Song of Roland, the Poem of the Cid, and the Rawdah Khani