Fiqh & Socitey

In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: January 31, 2023)....

In response to the desecration of the Holy Quran in Holland and Sweden, Egypt's Al-Azhar asked the citizens of the Arab world and Muslims to boycott the products of these two countries....

During this time period, the ‘Abbāsid government sought to create enmity against the Alawīs in the wider society, and therefore, scatter the Alawī forces. Whenever the government felt the smallest potential danger from the...

It is Islam that is growing significantly in Thailand at the moment. In Thailand, the natives are constantly attracted to the Islamic way of life, and many convert to Islam...

Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey, reflecting tensions between the two countries....

The Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2nd Graduate Islamic Studies Conference to be held between Saturday 6th of May 2023 and Sunday 7th of May 2023....

The Al-Mahdi Institute Press recently has published its latest proceedings of the 9th AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop entitled “Free Speech, Scholarly Critique and the Limits of Expression in...

Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad and his first wife Khadija, is venerated throughout the Islamic world. She married her father's cousin 'Ali b. Abi Talib, and gave birth to al-Hasan and al-Husayn, the only male descendants of....

It is enough to say about Fatima (s.a.) that she is the beloved daughter of the Messenger of Allah (S). Her status is beyond imagination. She is included in verse of Purification and the verse of Malediction....

In this book, ʿAllamah Sayyid Jaʿfar Murtaḍā al-ʿĀmilī raises the subject of the guardianship of the jurist and its rational and primordial proofs from a historical aspect....