Learning & Education

This book takes a close look at three Fatwaa-making agencies—Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Lajnah Bahth al-Masail Nahdlatul Ulama, and Majelis Tarjih Muhammadiyah—all of which are highly influential in shaping religious thought and the lives of Muslims in Indonesia...

This article analyzes two cases of early juristic opposition to the legal authority of hadīth narrated by women...

During the last three or four decades, modern scholarship has increasingly come to recognize Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafiʻi (d. 820) as having played a most central role in the early development of...

International Conference on Islamic Management and Multidisciplinary Studies (IMAMS 2019) 2019 will be held on 3rd (Saturday) August 2019 at Hotel Perdana, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia...

The Muslims in Britain Research Network in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University organize a conference entitles Future of....

“O Ja’far! The twelver[1] ulama[2] have put a lot of effort into collecting Imams’ statements from around cities. They have also mentioned whether they are true, reliable or weak so that people of your kind can see the documentation of the religious law without effort and pronounce a decree,” Muhaqqiq …

Future of Islam in Europe was discussed by academics at a conference in Istanbul's Ibn Haldun University on Thursday...

The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...

The congress of Shia jurisprudential and theological school would be held in 9th March in Lucknew and the Congress of Allameh Mir Hamid Hussain would be held in Iran. Today, February 26th, Hujjat al-Islam wal-muslimin[1]Mohammad Taqi Sobhani in a press conference with the presence of journalists stated, “The thought of …

The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” paradigm has reached its limits of …