Fiqh & Socitey

According to Islamic teachings, martyrdom requires some elements including belief in God and His Prophet, conscious choice and being killed for the sake of...

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in...

The Quran and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective unit of the Society of Biblical Litrerature invites proposals for both individual papers and pre-arranged panels at the...

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message to participants attending the 54nd conference of the Islamic Union Association for...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Myanmar to do everything in its power to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine, where state-sponsored violence has prevailed in recent years. The UN’s highest court in a ruling on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its …

The history of Islam in China is complicated by the existence of many Muslim ethnicities. Some have been there since the beginning of Islam itself; some settled as...

The terms 'mujtahid' and 'ijtihad' are nowadays among those which have acquired great currency, even sanctity, among the Shi'ah. One would be surprised to know...

Muqarnas -An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World- invites papers for its forthcoming volume 38, to be published in...

By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of...

In this essay, the writer will pursue an alternative strategy towards reconstructing the history of taqlid within the early...