The third Warwick Islamic Education Summer School will be focused on issues related to the formation of Muslim female faith and...
Read More »Call for papers: Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond
This one day multi-disciplinary symposium “Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond” will be held on October 30, 2018, at Brock University in...
Read More »Book: Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period
In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by...
Read More »Draft Teaching Manual: Islamic Law and Human Rights +PDF
The main aim of this module is to introduce student s to comparative perspectives on Islamic law and Human Rights drawing upon English language scholarship in the field. It is intended to provide an understanding of sources of the Islamic...
Read More »A Report of the Fiqhi Issues Workshop on “The Past, Present and Future of Shīʿī Ijtihād”
The 6th annual fiqhī workshop on “The Past, Present and Future of Shīʿī Ijtihād” was held on 5th-6th July, 2018 with the attendance of prominent scholars from Iran and Iraq seminary and the...
Read More »Why Illegitimate Children Do not Allow to Lead Congregational Prayer?
From the logical (ʿaqlī) and Islamic legal (sharʿī) perspective, why is it that children born out of wedlock (illegitimate children), despite the fact that they may be good people, are not allowed to...
Read More »ʿIlal al-sharāyiʿ- Reasons of the Rulings-Volume 2 +PDF
ʿIlal al-sharāyiʿ (literally: reasons of the rulings) is an Arabic book written by al-Shaykh al-Saduq (d. 381/991) who was a great jurist (faqih) and hadith scholars of Shi'a in fourth/tenth century....
Read More »ʿIlal al-sharāyiʿ- Reasons of the Rulings-Volume 1 +PDF
ʿIlal al-sharāyiʿ (literally: reasons of the rulings) is an Arabic book written by al-Shaykh al-Saduq (d. 381/991) who was a great jurist (faqih) and hadith scholars of Shi'a in fourth/tenth century...
Read More »Islam and the Living Law : the Ibn al-Arabi Approach +PDF
Ibn Al Arabi, the mystic scholar of the 13th century, highlights the ambiguities of language and the polysemantic, multifaceted text of the Quran. With Al Arabi's help...
Read More »Al-Tabari’s Book of Jihad
The Book of Jihad" (Kitab al-Jihad) is part of the fragmentary "Book of the Disagreement among Muslim Jurists" (Kitab Ikhtilaf al Fuqaha') by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari...
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