Intent in Islamic Law- Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunni Fiqh” is a highly important treatise not only for the student and the researcher of Islamic Law but also for anyone interested in the development of Islamic thought...

This book, a collection of articles from the University of Gloucestershire’s annual Islam conference, is another effort at clarification. In this case, the presumed audience is British; most of the authors are based in the United Kingdom and the material they draw on...

A growing Muslim community in Canada has led to swelling sales of halal food, which has some grocers, manufacturers and eateries seeking ways to...

In Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a madhhab-law tradition’ of jurisprudence underpinning the four...

In this book Tanya Walker draws on extensive fieldwork from over 100 cases to argue for a radically different understanding of the setting and dynamics of the...

Millions of Muslims have converged on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to mark the martyrdom anniversary of the 7th Shia Imam, Imam Musa ibn Jafar...

The author presents a finely honed analysis of women's property rights in the medieval Islamic world based on a series of unique documents originating in the Islamic court of Granada in the...

The meaning of 'Jihad' is not as straightforward as some might like it to be. This book aims to explore how its meaning has been manipulated since the rise of political Islam during the 1960s and to...

This book explores whether public policy in Muslim majority countries has been influenced by Islamic economic discourse...

Shi'a Fuqaha have proclaimed a variety of dimensions about leather including rulings on its sale and purchase, its purity and impurity, eating and feeding it to others and its ...