Although this sentiment dominates the current digital landscape, information about Islamic law and history often remains bound to its physical form and to the price of acquiring it...
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The second international conference on Quran and Hadith studies themed “Qur’an-Hadith Studies, Information Technology and Media: Challenges and Opportunities” will be held at Ushuludin Faculty, State Islamic University...
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The fourth international Quran symposium -Muslim Efforts on the Qur’ān in the Fırst Three Centuries of Islām- will be held in Ankara, Turkey on October 19-21, 2018...
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This two-days project will study the Quran and its reception from the Christian perspective by analyzing all Greek, Syriac, and Latin translations of the Quran from the 7th century CE until the Early Modern period...
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On behalf of the Shia Muslim Council of Southern California, in collaboration with Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Bayan Claremont College, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...
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In Shahīd Thānī's point of view, ijtihad is contingent upon the knowledge of some studies including: morphology and syntax, terminology, etymology, rhetoric, uṣūl al-fiqh (principles of Islamic jurisprudence), logic, rijāl (scrutiny of...
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Fiqh is briefly defined as "the knowledge of inferring (istinbāṭ) aḥkām sharʻī". The term istinbāṭ (inference) literally means appearing after being hidden, so extracting water from the depth of a well is called nibṭ. Therefore extracting and discovering aḥkām sharʻī from...
Read More »The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies is the central forum for the study of Islam and Muslim societies at Stanford University...
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The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies track will enable students to learn about the geography, cultures, languages, literature, arts, religions, politics, law and governments of Islamic societies and the...
Read More »Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is dedicated to furthering the scholarly study of Islam and the Muslim world in a broadly interdisciplinary context and offers incomparable resources in its world-class faculty, extensive and...
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