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A common misconception in contemporary society is that Islamic laws are at odds with the laws of the land. Indeed, the very notion that Islam advocates compliance with a country’s laws is enough to invoke a most audible harrumph among...

Written from an ethnographic perspective, the book, Applied Family Law in Islamic Courts: Shari’a Courts in Gaza, investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in...

The Book “Philosophy and The Intellectual Life In Shi'ah Islam” offers insight into the rich intellectual history in Shi'ah Islam of examining enduring and integral theological, mystical, metaphysical, and...

A district in Indonesia’s deeply Islamic Aceh province has banned men and women from dining together unless they are married or related, according to an official who said it would...

An eastern Iowa non-profit group is offering sports hijab to Muslim girls to encourage them to play sports and stay active...

Egypt's top Sunni Muslim authority, Al-Azhar, has issued a statement expressing harassment of Women is religiously forbidden and should be punished ‘regardless of the context or...

Human cloning is of the issues that have recently come to the fore. As examining an issue in jurisprudence is impossible before shading light on its all corners, exploring its inner and outer aspects, and defining its good and bad consequences; the religious researchers and...

Cloning is of two types: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning would involve cloning cells from a human for use in medicine and transplants...

A Swedish Muslim woman whose job interview was terminated when she refused to shake hands with a man has won compensation...

Young Muslim women, growing up in the West are, for the most part, encouraged to study, work hard, and develop careers to gain financial independence and contribute their skills to society...