Fiqh & Socitey

This Article explores an area of close parallel between legal doctrines in the contexts of Islamic law and American legal theory...

When Lisa Vogl, a single mother, photographer and also a Muslim revert, converted to Islam in 2011, couldn’t find many options for modest clothing and realised that many other Muslim women shared the same sentiments. Gone are those days when it was difficult for Muslim women to find clothing that …

The fourteen studies included in this volume, at a basic level, aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of..

Iraq's top Shiite cleric, ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, has warned that "foreign influence" in the upcoming national elections could undermine the country's ability to carry out a free and fair vote...

The following text gives substantial proofs and reasons for the desirability of the beard that conform to both faith and rationality...

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayyeb asserted the necessity of the Islamic world’s unity, “to remove all the obstacles and thorns that are sown from east and west,” in his speech during the opening session of the high-level consultative meeting of...

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...

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...

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, polygamy is permissible (Jaʼiz), but it is not recommended (Mostahab). This view is not only strongly backed by Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh), and consistent with the decree of some early and recent jurisprudents, but there is...

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...