Is it problematic to eat the meat that has not been slaughtered (according to Islamic laws) or Slaughtered by non-Muslims?...
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The Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main convenes an international congress on "A Decade of Islamic Theology Looking Back and...
Read More »Arbaeen Hospitality Gains UNESCO Heritage Status
The generous hospitality of Iraqi people during the Arbaeen pilgrimage has been added to UNESCO’s prestigious heritage list. “Provision of services and hospitality during the Arba’in (Arbaeen) visitation” has won world heritage status, joining UNESCO’s culture list as one of the most prominent social and cultural characteristics of the Arab …
Read More »Book: Shia’ism In Sunni’ism (Shia Islam in Sunni Books)
The purpose of this book is to prove Imamate via Nass and mostly traditions narrated by the Sunnis and is organized in such a way to be helpful for...
Read More »Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet
Providing a thorough analysis of sayyids and sharifs from the ninth century to the present day, and from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indonesian Archipelago, this book will be of...
Read More »Intisar A. Rabb
Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History at Harvard University and as a...
Read More »Wael B. Hallaq
Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico-historical forces subsumed by...
Read More »Morgan Clarke
Morgan Clarke is an anthropologist of the Arabic-speaking Middle East with a particular interest in contemporary Islam, especially Islamic law and its relationship to positive law, secular ethics and the...
Read More »Robert Gleave
Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI), IAIS, University of Exeter...
Read More »Abdulaziz Sachedina
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Professor and IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto...
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