Bahraini regime forces, backed by masked militiamen, have arrested a Shia Muslim cleric on the northwestern coast of the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown and persecution of the...
Read More »American Muslims to Host Islamic Prayer in front of White House
Marking One Year of Resistance: Impacted refugees, leaders and dozens of organizations will host an Islamic prayer circled by a human chain-- in front of the White House, followed by a rally and march to CBP headquarters in...
Read More »Call for Papers: Heritage Revisited – Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe
It invites proposals for papers, which present case-studies of the rediscovery and understanding of Islamic objects in the 17th and 18th centuries and at the same time engage with the implications of early interpretations of Islamic objects in Europe...
Read More »Book: Living Sharia: Law and Practice in Malaysia
The book “Living Sharia: Law and Practice in Malaysia” provides us with diverse and dynamic conceptions of Shari’a in the wider context of Southeast Asia and beyond Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested …
Read More »Mīrzā Abul-Qāsim b. Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Shaftī (Mīrzā al-Qummī)
Al-Mīrzā Abul-Qāsim b. Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Shaftī, commonly known as al-Mīrzā al-Qummī and al-Muḥaqqiq al-Qummī, was a Shi'a Marja' in the 12th/18th and 13th/19th centuries....
Read More »Muhammad Hasan al-Najafi (the Author of Jawahir)
Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Bāqir b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Sharīf al-Iṣfahānī (b. around the year 1202/1787 – d.1266/1850), known as Ṣāḥib al-Jawāhir (the author of al-Jawahir), was an Usuli Shiite scholar of fiqh in the thirteenth/nineteenth century in Najaf. His most important work is the book, Jawahir …
Read More »Marjaiyya in Iraq and Iran
Marja' is a mujtahid who is followed by a number of the Shi'as, that is, some Shi'as practice their religious acts in accordance with that of mujtahid's jurisprudential views (that is, fatwas) and pay their judicial alms (al-wujuhat) to him or his representatives. To follow a religious scholar in...
Read More »Article: The Case of Variae Lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence
The qirāʾāt or variae lectiones represent the vast corpus of Qurʾānic readings that were preserved through the historical processes associated with the textual codification and transmission of the Qurʾān...
Read More »Muslim Council of Britain to Start New Counter-Terror Initiative
Britain’s Muslims will start a new counter-terrorism initiative under the country’s biggest Muslim umbrella organization, according to a conference in North London on...
Read More »London Primary Schools Backs Down over Hijab Ban
A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijabs appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents...
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