The purpose of this book is to introduce the thought of an Imami Shiʻi scholar who lived and worked in Baghdad at the turn of the eleventh century and was the first of a line of scholars who helped establish a role for....
August, 2019
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3 August
Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age
From laws against the implementation of Shari‘ah in the United States to anger about the role of Shari‘ah in Egypt’s new constitution, many people are confused about the meaning of Shari‘ah in Islam and...
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3 August
Visions of Sharīʿa: Contemporary Discussions in Shī ͑ī Legal Theory
In Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory ( uṣūl al-fiqh) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of...
July, 2019
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31 July
New Released: The Laws of Islam by Ayatollah Modarresi +PDF
The Laws of Islam is the English-language legal manual of Grand Ayatollah al-Modarresi which provides the reader with a concise overview of the Islamic obligations and recommendations, both personal and...
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29 July
Book: Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in...
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26 July
Book: The State, Ulama and Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia
The author argues that, while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in “capturing” the state by influencing policies in their favor...
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24 July
Waqf in Zaydī Yemen: Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge...
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22 July
Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith +PDF
This book is a first step in a comprehensive attempt to contrast Hadith with the Qur`an in order to uncover some of the unjust practices by Muslims concerning women and....
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19 July
A Profile of Hazrat-e Ayatollah Al-Ozma Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi+pdf
Hazrat-e Ayatollah al-Ozma Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi is considered as one of the most prominent students of the late Marja’, Ayatollah al-Ozma Sayyid Muhammad Bagher Sadr...
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19 July
Islamic Insurance: A Modern Approach to Islamic Banking
The book aims to contribute towards further understanding of the conceptual frameworks of Islamic insurance in the hope that the world community will appreciate and recognise Islamic insurance as a...