Ijtihad Network Islamic Jurisprudence
The writer of this book considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the...
February, 2019
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17 February
Book: Shari’a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...
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17 February
Book: Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
This book is very much work in progress and presents preliminary reflections on some contemporary challenges to...
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14 February
Book: Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State
In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...
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5 February
Book: Women in Shiʿism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies
This book takes a more nuanced approach to that question by exploring how women are portrayed in hadith on ancient sacred narrative – the stories of the prophets. ...
January, 2019
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27 January
The Emergence of Modern Shi’ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran +PDF
This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to...
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19 January
Foundations of Islamic Unity: Crucial Points Relevant to the Reconciliation of the Muslim Community
In this monumental book, one of the most important works of the late Sayyid Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al Musawi al-Amili, the author has presented the reasons why love and harmony must prevail between all Muslims. In this monumental book, one of the most important works of the late Sayyid ...
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19 January
The Creation of Philosophical Tradition
the book “The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography & the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century A.D.” clearly documents the vitality of the post-classical philosophical tradition as reflected in literary biography, the genres of...
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16 January
Islam, Law and the Modern State: (Re)imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts
This path-breaking study on comparative public law confirms that the globalisation of debates about the relationship of law and religion allows today a profound, sensible re-assessment of plurality-conscious ‘justice as...
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16 January
Islam and the future of tolerance +PDF
Islam and the Future of Tolerance has been published with the explicit goal of inspiring a wider public discussion by way of example. In a world riven by misunderstanding and violence, Harris and Nawaz demonstrate how two people with very different views can find common ground. In this short book, ...
