This article will explore how modernity has impinged on the classical formulation of Islamic law and how the intersection of shari’a and modernity has forced Muslim jurists to...
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Delay in debt repayment by bank customers is one of the challenges facing the Islamic banking system in Iran. One solution to this problem can be the stipulation of a...
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This study examines how some of the most preeminent commentators of the Shi‘a exegetical tradition have interpreted Qur’an 9:28 to frame the...
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In this article, Liyakat Takim discusses the prayer of a traveler at places designated as holy in Shi‘i hadith and juridical...
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This paper analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Shaykh Murtada al-Ansari the influential scholar and first sole supreme exemplar of the...
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In this paper, the writer initially discusses sectarian polemics in the eighth and ninth centuries as stated in Shi‘i and Sunni polemical and...
Read More »Khums: A Support for Financial Independence, part 1
In this paper, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi examines the impact of khums on meeting the financial needs of the Muslim...
Read More »The Lineage of Children Born by Sperm Donation: A Shiite Perspective
There are three persons that have a possible legal relationship to the child born from this method - the sperm donor (biological father), the...
Read More »Lineage and the Rights of Cloned Child in the Islamic Jurisprudence
Lineage in the Islamic law is one of the most basic human rights each individual inherits from his family. When modern assisted reproductive technologies appeared in recent decades, the...
Read More »Article: Nuclear Fatwa and International Law
This article seeks to study the content and the nature of the Nuclear Fatwa in the light of the Islamic jurisprudence, the...
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