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The history of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation...

Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī’s maqāṣid al-sharīʿa paradigm is characterized as pragmatic epistemologically, more accessible and dynamic methodologically and employing a virtue ethic.

This text, prepared and published by Al-Ghadeer Center for Islamic Studies and translated by Hamid S. Atiyyah, reveals the facts about the Wahhabia doctrine and sheds lights on its origins, school of thought, and relation with...

The present paper seeks to assess various views from Islamic jurists relating to human cloning, which is one of the...

The pre-implantation embryo, as the product of human reproduction process through unconventional methods and as the result of advancement in...

In this paper, the writer attempts to delineate the Qur’anic position on peaceful coexistence with the “other” and also examines the classical juridical and exegetical pronouncements on...

In this article, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi examines the impact of khums on meeting the financial needs of the Muslim...

The Qur’anic view of peace and co-existence is interwoven with its view of a universal moral discourse that unites all human beings. According to the Qur’an, human beings are...

In the classical period of Islam, the term ijtihad was part of a longer formulation, namely: ijtihad bi al-ra’y, which means ‘putting in utmost effort in the exercise of...

“The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law” is a significant contribution to studies of the role of expert witnesses in legal systems as well as to...