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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...

In this article, Liyakat Takim discusses the prayer of a traveler at places designated as holy in Shi‘i hadith and juridical...

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...

In this paper, the writer initially discusses sectarian polemics in the eighth and ninth centuries as stated in Shi‘i and Sunni polemical and...

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

There are three persons that have a possible legal relationship to the child born from this method - the sperm donor (biological father), the...

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...

This article seeks to study the content and the nature of the Nuclear Fatwa in the light of the Islamic jurisprudence, the...

This study examines legal debates over the lawfulness of alcoholic beverages between Mālikī/Shāfi‘ī and...

The traditionist-jurisprudents (fuqahā' ashāb al-hadīth) of the earlier ninth century C.E. proposed that Islamic law be inferred from...