Governing & Policy

With Islamophobia on the rise in politics and on the street, many Muslims are leaving France. Muslim women are very often the driving force behind the departure of an entire family because many cannot find work in...

Human history has been witness to crimes of different sorts and scales. In face of such crimes and offences, international organizations have certain responsibilities, which if carried out timely and successfully would lead to....

This book is not about the present. It is a history of the ideology underpinning modern jihad and, in particular, a first full account of one important strand in that founding ideology: Wahhabism...

This article examines the political theology of contemporary (2011-2012) Pakistani Shi‘a traditional scholars (ulema)....

This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states....

Thousands of people across the globe have taken to the streets to deplore Israeli violence against Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and elsewhere in the occupied territories, as the....

A seminar was held in Lahore, Pakistan, in which speakers stressed that the country’s destiny depends on enforcing Nizam-e-Mustafa (the system of governance under...

The disappearance of the twelfth Imām in 874 plunged the Twelvers (then Imāmīs) into a prolonged state of crisis.....

The purpose of this study is twofold. Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, it purports to offer a new interpretive perspective for the analysis of the role of religion in political action and societal change in...

This study aims at analysing two texts which are highly concerned with the issue of rights, namely, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted and proclaimed in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations and Treatise on Rights ‘Risalat Al-Huquq’ written by Imam Ali Al-Sajjad (p.b.u.h.) …