Attributes of God (Daf' Shubah Al-tashbih Bi-akaff Al-tanzih)

'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Jawzi al-Hanbali(509-597/AH 1116-1201 CE) was the Imam of the Hanbalis and foremost orator of kings and commoners in his time, whose gatherings reportedly reached one hundred thousand. A master of the Prophet's traditions, philologist, commentator of Koran, expert jurist, physician, and historian of superb charachter and exquisite manners. Ibn al-Jawzi was a prolific author of over seven hundred books. He is considered as one of the most prolific of all writers that the Islamic Civilisation produced.Abdullah bin Hamid 'Ali spent five years studying Arabic language at the Quba Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies under the tutelage of Imam Anwar bin Nafia Muhaimin and his brother, Anas bin Nafia Muhaimin. He later went on to become the first American to attend and graduate from the Faculty of Sharia at the University of al-Qarawiyyin, Fez in Morocco. He currently resides in Philadelphia, PA (USA), where he works as an Islamic Chaplain at the State Correctional Institution of Chester, PA, and conducts regular classes and lectures in the Philadelphia-New Jersey area.Khalid Yahya Blankinship is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Temple University. His book, "The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads" was published by the State University of New York Press in 1994; he also translated two of the thirty-eight volumes of "The History of al-Tabari" for the Tabari TranslationProject. In addition to courses on Islam, he regularly teaches Introduction to World Religions and Religion and Science.Blankinship, Khalid Yahya is the author of 'Attributes of God (Daf' Shubah Al-tashbih Bi-akaff Al-tanzih)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780955235900 and ISBN 0955235901.