Author: Feryal Salem

Porphyry and his Isagoge Porphyry (234-305 C.E.) who was also known as Furfuryus in Arabic sources, was born to a Phoenician family in the city of Tyre; which later became known as Ṣūr and is located in Southern Lebanon. His birth name was Malchus which means “king” in Semitic languages. It is said that he…

Emergence of Kufa as a Center of Learning Kufa is not an ancient pre-Islamic city as many others were. It is a city that was founded and constructed by the Ṣaḥāba. It was originally founded by Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ who was believed to be one of the 10 people promised Paradise in the well-known…