Fiqh & Socitey

Ayatollah Mohammad Mo’men a member of Assembly of Experts of the Leadership and The Guardian Council of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran passed away at age 81 in...

The main argument of this article is that many of the works of the contemporary Islamic literature on the “jurisprudence of Muslim minorities” attempt to provide an Islamic foundation for...

Bahrain’s highest religious authority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim visited Imam khomeini's Holy Shrine in Tehran...

The second Annual Conference on ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism’ will be held by The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon)....

The writer of this book considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the...

International Union of Muslim Scholars accepts with sorrow the meeting of a large number of officials from Arab countries with the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu who occupy their Holy Land, kill their children, blockade their cities and...

This dissertation is a bio-bibliographical study of Twelver Shīʿism in southern Iraq in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries, a period that has been called the....

This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...

Muslim visitors from places like Malaysia and Indonesia are eager to try traditional Japanese food, but Islamic dietary requirements can make this difficult. A growing number of Japanese restaurants are beginning to accommodate these needs, though. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics fast approaching, Japan—in both the public and …

In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...