The following discussion titled “The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period: An Initial Consideration of Fatwās From Three Maghribī Sources” examines the place that natural science (chiefly astronomy and medicine) occupied in three of the most important collections of legal opinions ( fatwa pl. fatawa) in the Muslim West during the late medieval and...

This paper will examine the historical study of Shi͑ism in Western Academia. It will argue that until the last four decades, Western scholarship studied Shi͑i Islam primarily through a...

This paper discusses issues of halal food and its role in halal tourism with specific reference to Malaysia and Singapore which have majority and minority Muslim...

Nature has always been respectable and heavenly in the eyes of the religious man who regards the world of nature as the scene of divine glory and beauty, and damaging nature as the...

The Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) program strives to promote research and education about Islam and the Middle East to the University community. About the Center The Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) program strives to promote research and education about Islam and the Middle East to the University …

This study aims to investigate external barriers to political freedom, approaching to Quran with the question that, what the external barriers to...

Islam as a comprehensive religion, gives some rulings regarding our personal and social life and among other things, Islam speaks about the Rights of Animals and through different verses and traditions, tries to protect them. In this series, we will focus on Animal Rights in Islam which is one of the lesser discussed aspects of the religion of Islam.

The Grand Ayatollah Sistani in an important Fatwa about decedents of Coronavirus emphasized that “It is not permissible to burn the Muslim dead bodies and their relatives and...

Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hussaini al-Modarresi, one of the leading Islamic faith leaders addressed the impending global health crisis and...

This article looks at the historic presence of the festival, survival as boria (choral street performance) and alleged Shi‘a roots in...