Fiqh & Socitey

The authority of the Imam – an absent authority – is a governance of souls, even of their governmentality but not a government of power politics. At least that kingdom is deferred to the parousia of the Imam when he...

The Journal of Contemporary Poetics which is published by the Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Literature, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan welcomes articles and book reviews from various disciplines in...

Most of women who reached very high level in religious scholarship or religious establishment in Iran are the wives or the daughters of famous religious scholars; religious scholars who have a family legacy. But Nusrat Amin doesn’t...

This seminar will highlight elements of interest from several verses. Some concern women's status and rights, but others look at family relations more broadly, as well as to...

Certain factors are at play for sighting the crescent on the first night of the month. These factors include “the time when the sun and the moon sets”, “the interval between the setting of the two”, “the coordinates of the sun and...

This report -Eastern and Western Europeans Differ on Importance of Religion, Views of Minoritiesn and Key Social Issues- was produced by Pew Research Center as part of the...

The period of Delhi Sultanate was a bright era of Indian history which witnessed revolutionary changes in education, sciences, architecture, fine arts, administration etc. The Islamic sciences, especially, fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) flourished and...

The book “The Islamic Law on Land Tax and Rent: the Peasants' Loss of Property Rights as Interpreted in the Hanafite Legal Literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods” focuses in particular on the interrelated areas of...

Abdulaziz Sachedina was born into an Indian Muslim family in Tanzania in 1942. He received BA degrees from Aligarh Muslim University (in Islamic Studies) in Aligarh, India, and Ferdowsi University (in Persian language and literature) in...

Rituals enjoy an important role in Islam. Their injunctions represent an important part of jurisprudence and a worshipping conduct which formulates a noticeable phenomenon in the daily life of...