Organized by the University of Religions and Denominations, the Shi’a Intensive Course endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to Shi’a Islam and offer an original and insightful understanding of its history, doctrines, and....
Read More »Article: Al-Shāfi’ī’s Position on Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Criminal Law
This article will critically examine al-Shāfi’ī’s complex views on the use of qiyās as a method for establishing culpability under Islamic criminal law and, then explore how his position corresponds to the human rights paradigm in the contemporary age...
Read More »International Conference on Islamic Studies Today to Be Held in the UK
The international conference on Islamic Studies Today is for celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Journal of Islamic Studies...
Read More »Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith +PDF
This book is a first step in a comprehensive attempt to contrast Hadith with the Qur`an in order to uncover some of the unjust practices by Muslims concerning women and....
Read More »Call for Papers: Int’l Conference on Quran as Foundation of Civilization
This conference will gather scholars to discuss various issues and other issues related to the Quran, especially its function as a foundation of well-being and a trigger for the transformation of...
Read More »Article: Multivocality in Shia Seminary
The sociological study of the Shia theological seminary is a neglected task and I should immediately add that this is not a simple task. The present research is a pioneer in this field that try to explain some hidden aspects in the Shia theological schools...
Read More »Book: Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith
This book is a first step in a comprehensive attempt to contrast Hadith with the Qur`an in order to uncover some of the unjust practices by Muslims concerning women and gender issues...
Read More »The Legal Methodology of “Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat” and its Critics: An Analytical Study
Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat — the jurisprudence of Muslim minorities — is a legal doctrine asserting that Muslim minorities, especially those residing in the...
Read More »A Turn in the Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Twentieth Century Usūl al-Fiqh
Law and theology in Islam, as for Christians in medieval Europe, have always had a symbiotic relationship. But whereas western Christians accorded a secondary holy status to the Emperor Justinian’s corpus juris civilis, Muslims could not...
Read More »Marjaʿiyyah from Below: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Authority +PDF
This article presents reflections from an ethnographic study of the meaning and perception of the marjaʿiyyah among Shiʿa lay Muslims in Kuwait...
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