Governing & Policy

The message of the Islamic Revolution is thus respect for freedom, independence of nations, and improvement of intellectual capacities, in accordance with what the Almighty Creator has decreed...

Al-Wefaq secretary-general Salman and two senior al-Wefaq leaders Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Alaswad were sentenced to life imprisonment in November. The verdicts issued Monday are final and...

The head of the UN team tasked to investigate ISIS crimes in Iraq, primarily against Yezidis, met with the top Shiite cleric in the country on Wednesday...

The High Court in Kaduna on Tuesday ordered the Kaduna State Government to avail the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky and his wife Zinat, access to....

This path-breaking study on comparative public law confirms that the globalisation of debates about the relationship of law and religion allows today a profound, sensible re-assessment of plurality-conscious ‘justice as...

This book contributes important insights related to Islamic jurisprudence and secularism in the Turkish context and regarding the role of language in contested legal and religious contexts....

This paper examines the contributions of the Ḥanafī jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 AH/1090-91 CE) to the development of the Islamic tradition of war. By examining al-Sarakhsī’s treatment of the use of force by both state and non-state actors in...

The authority of the Imam – an absent authority – is a governance of souls, even of their governmentality but not a government of power politics. At least that kingdom is deferred to the parousia of the Imam when he...

The Journal of Contemporary Poetics which is published by the Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Literature, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan welcomes articles and book reviews from various disciplines in...

The period of Delhi Sultanate was a bright era of Indian history which witnessed revolutionary changes in education, sciences, architecture, fine arts, administration etc. The Islamic sciences, especially, fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) flourished and...