This booklet describes the Islamic laws related to the will (al-wasiyyah), which are among the most important issues that Muslims must understand and implement, because they are...
Read More »Job Opening: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law and Learning in Shiite Islam
The full-time posts are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of...
Read More »Tadwīn al-Ḥadīth: Introduction and Preliminary Discussions
The following is a lightly-edited selection from baḥth al-khārij (advanced jurisprudence) lectures of Sayyid Aḥmad Madadī, a respected jurist and student of Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-Khūʾī and SayyidʿAlī al-Sīstānī. He resides and teaches in the holy city of...
Read More »Call for Articles: Beyond Karbala, New Approaches to Shīʿi Materiality
The edited volume "Beyond Karbala: New Approaches to Shiʿi Materiality" (working title) seeks out to explore materially expressed Shiism, with a renewed focus on non-ʿAshūrāʾ rituals, practices and objects...
Read More »Ghadir and the meaning of “Mawla” in the Light of Sunni Sources
At the event of Ghadir, is it sensible that "mawla" means “friend” and “helper”? Supposing it to be true, did Muslims fulfill the obligation of help and friendship after the demise of the holy Prophet?
Read More »Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher, Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm
This is an opportunity for an outstanding scholar to join the research project Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP), funded by the European Research Council and directed by...
Read More »Third Islamic Education Summer School to Be Held in Warwick
The third Warwick Islamic Education Summer School will be focused on issues related to the formation of Muslim female faith and...
Read More »Call for papers: Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond
This one day multi-disciplinary symposium “Slavery, Liberation and Islamic Law in the Middle East and beyond” will be held on October 30, 2018, at Brock University in...
Read More »Book: Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period
In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by...
Read More »Draft Teaching Manual: Islamic Law and Human Rights +PDF
The main aim of this module is to introduce student s to comparative perspectives on Islamic law and Human Rights drawing upon English language scholarship in the field. It is intended to provide an understanding of sources of the Islamic...
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