The Islamic College invites abstracts to be submitted for its seventh conference on Shi'i studies...
Read More »Call for Applications: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
The summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the...
Read More »Can A Woman Reach the Rank of Ijtihad in Religious Seminaries?
A worthy interaction of Islam with science, and requiring that from every Muslim man and woman, has resulted in women always studying the sciences in Islamic communities and finally some of...
Read More »Maxims of Fiqh (Al-Qawaid Al-Fiqhiyyah)
The maxims of fiqh, or al-qawaid al-fighiyyah, are part of a specific science which falls under the category of kb. A maxim is defined as a general rule by which subsidiary fiqh rulings are known by directly. The maxims of fiqh are mostly comprehensive statements which combine multiple subsidiary issues …
Read More »Comprehensive Islamic Jurisprudence according to the Qur’an and Authentic Sunnah
In this book, Al-Imam Ash-Shawkani - may Allah shower blessings on him - provided the authentic texts upon which his chosen views in ad-Durar al-Bahiyyah were based, citing the sources of the narrations, affirming their...
Read More »The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives
Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most important centers for the study of what we now call "the exact sciences"—including the mathematical sciences of arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry and their applications in...
Read More »Call for Papers: Scriptural Sexuality in the Three Traditions
The volume will explore the presentation, or mis-presentation, of sexual/ised characters through one, or more, of the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam....
Read More »A Review of the Book ‘Man Lā Yaḥḍaruh al-Faqīh’ by Shaykh Al-Saduq
This work is included in the four major books of the traditions of Shi'ite Islam. Despite the fact that many of his other works are extremely important, this book must be regarded as his...
Read More »Fellowships: Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
The Program on Law and Society Visiting Fellowship Program provides opportunities for outstanding scholars and legal practitioners to undertake research, writing, and scholarly engagement on law and society in Muslim majority and...
Read More »Summer School: “The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic” June 2022
The summer school is open to doctoral students enrolled in any country, in any discipline, as long as their dissertation subject and the proposed talk are related to the theme of the...
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