The paper, titled "Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric: Redefinition of Islamic Law and Authority in Usuli Shi‘ism," analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Murtada al-Ansari...

This boos will address some of the key questions here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings...

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa signs an exclusive agreement to regulate Halal food in Japan...

Salman Hameed, Ph.D, will present at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas “The Crescent in the Scientific Age: Muslim Perceptions of Science and Religion” as part of the MacTaggart Catholic Intellectual Tradition Lecture Series at...

In the book, Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays by Norman Calder that have never been published...

In this Critical essay, Hamid Algar, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the rise of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, arguing throughout that it has seriously distorted the fundamental teaching of Islam and functioned for decades as the ideological mainstay of the...

This Handbook explores the interweaving relationship between Islamic business ethics and the market, and examines the critical role that ethics can play in ensuring that business thrives...

The transmission of scholarly eminence within a given family has been a frequent occurrence in the history of Islamic Iran, particularly after the adoption of Shi’ism during the tenth/sixteenth century. Few, however, are the lineages that could compete for continuity of erudition with the ancestry of ‘Allama Tabataba’i, the...

The opening issue of Islamology journal for 2018 which will be devoted to Islam in megalopolises called for papers...

The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide says international crimes were committed in Myanmar...Rohingya Muslims have been killed, tortured, raped, burned alive and humiliated solely because of who they are...