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The following text gives substantial proofs and reasons for the desirability of the beard that conform to both faith and rationality...
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Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayyeb asserted the necessity of the Islamic world’s unity, “to remove all the obstacles and thorns that are sown from east and west,” in his speech during the opening session of the high-level consultative meeting of...
Read More »Call for Papers International: Conference on Qur’an and Hadith Studies
The second international conference on Quran and Hadith studies themed “Qur’an-Hadith Studies, Information Technology and Media: Challenges and Opportunities” will be held at Ushuludin Faculty, State Islamic University...
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The fourth international Quran symposium -Muslim Efforts on the Qur’ān in the Fırst Three Centuries of Islām- will be held in Ankara, Turkey on October 19-21, 2018...
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According to Ayatollah Khamenei, polygamy is permissible (Jaʼiz), but it is not recommended (Mostahab). This view is not only strongly backed by Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh), and consistent with the decree of some early and recent jurisprudents, but there is...
Read More »Call for papers: Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum. The Quran in Translation
This two-days project will study the Quran and its reception from the Christian perspective by analyzing all Greek, Syriac, and Latin translations of the Quran from the 7th century CE until the Early Modern period...
Read More »The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Vision of Islamic Philosophical Theology and Paraxis of Global Peace
This manuscripts provides important data for US educated public. In this context, we may inquire, what are the actual sources of political enlightenment of the general public...
Read More »Doctoral Thesis: Debating al-Ḥākimiyyah and Takfīr in Salafism
This study examines the intra-Salafī disputes in the 1990s over the legitimacy of present-day rulers in the Muslim world and their status as Muslims...
Read More »Usul Al-Fiqh Al-Islami: Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence
This book is an attempt to simplify and introduce Usul al Fiqh to students of the social sciences and humanities who do not have the opportunity to study the details of the science considered to be the most important method ...
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