Introduction to Islam II. Themes
Table of Contents

Source 1: Quran 19, 22-26 [text]
Source 2: Mariam and Isa [picture]
Source 3: Discourses of Rumi [text]

Source 1: Quran 18, 10-25 [text]
Source 2: The transmission of the legend of the Seven sleepers [slideshow]
Source 3: The myth of the Sleepers in the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia [text]

Source 1: Al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings [text]
Source 2: The creation of man and the revolt of Iblis [text]
Source 3: Adam honoured by the angels [picture]

Source 1: The tomb of Fatima Ma’sumah in Qom (Iran) [picture]
Source 2: The visit to Fatima Ma’sumah [text]
Source 3: The legality of the zyara [text]
Source 4: a. The mausoleum of the great jurist al-Shafi’i (Cairo) [picture]
                 b. Description of the mausoleum [picture]

Source 1: The hoope instructing the birds [picture]
Source 2: The peacock in The Conference of the Birds [text]
Source 3: a. The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden [picture]
                 b. The serpent according to Al-Tabari [text]
Source 4: The peacock in yazidism [picture

Source 1: Quran 56, 1-32 [text]
Source 2: The “Garden of Fidelity” [picture]
Source 3: Western Renaissance gardens and “Islamic” gardens [text]

Source 1: a. Postage stamp of Jordan [picture]
                 b. Postage stamp of Iran [picture]
Source 2: The crossing of the as-Sirat bridge [text]

Source 1: a. The lesson of Gabriel (Al-Tabari) [text]
                 b. The lesson of Gabriel (ibn Ishaq) [text]
Source 2: The mihrab of the mosque of Kairouan [video]
Source 3: a. The Kevir Jaamia mosque in Simferopol (Crimea) [picture]
                 b. Remarks by Slimane Zeghidour [text]

Source 1: A’isha’s curtain with images [text]
Source 2: Persian miniature (early 14th c.) [picture]
Source 3: Excerpts from The Message (Moustapha Akkad) [video]
Source 4: The position of Egyptian sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi on images [text]

Source 1: The Muslims of Europe [map]
Source 2: Private law of the hosting country and Islamic law [text]
Source 3: “Halal” marriage [text]