According to Islam, marriage is the basic institution which aims at establishing the family, the primary unit of society. It is desirable and recommended by itself but if a person is in need of marriage and is...
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Hundreds of Nigerian Muslims and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Thursday staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Zaria massacre and detention of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky’s by...
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This article seeks to explore the Fatwas of Shiite faqihs (well-qualified religious authorities/experts on Islamic Jurisprudence) regarding digital currency such as Bitcoin so that Shiite believers know how to treat such a new phenomenon...
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The first Islamic bank in Tajikistan to be opened in April 2019, a source in the financial market of Tajikistan said...
Read More »Marrying Fatimid Women: Legal Theory and Substantive Law In Shī’ī Jurisprudence
In this essay, the writer examines one area of substantive law (furū' al-flqh) which figured prominently in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute in Shī̒̒'ī legal history: the legality of the marriage of one man to two women descended from the daughter of the...
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