Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the...
July, 2019
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6 July
Maqāṣid al-Sharīʻa and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought: An Examination
Maqasid al-Shari'a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought looks at the effectiveness of Maqasid al-Shari'a - as understood as both a classical legal hermeneutical construct developed by premodern Islamic legal theoreticians...
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5 July
The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
In The Great Theft, Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars, argues that Islam is currently passing through a transformative period no less dramatic than the movements that swept through Europe during the...
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3 July
Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law: Theory and Applications
The concept of Islamic Law has not been precisely defined, as some authors use the terms to reference the Shari’a while use it to refer to fiqh (jurisprudence)...
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3 July
Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 3
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and...
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2 July
Book: Wahhabis Fitna Exposed +PDF
This text is a detailed and well-referenced reply to the booklet “What is Shi’aism?” which has been printed in Nairobi and distributed throughout East Africa by the Wahhabis, in order to...
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2 July
Book: Globalization, Violence and World Governance +PDF
In this work Laura Westra draws our attention to the failure of international law to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the ravages of neoliberal agendas in an era of globalization...
June, 2019
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23 June
What Is Salat (Prayer) +PDF
Salat (Prayer), this standing and bending down; This way of sitting and laying the forehead on the ground; Uttering words in...
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22 June
The First and the Largest Encyclopedia on the Fatwa of Holy Defense Published
Believing in the role of the Fatwa given by the highest religious Marja’iyah about defending Iraq, its people, and its sanctities and its coincidence with the fifth remembrance of its announcement, Al-Abbas (pbuh) Holy Shrine accomplished a War History Encyclopedia about the...
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20 June
Book: Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and...