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July, 2019

  • 16 July

    Modern Perspectives On Islamic Law

    The book explores the role of Islamic law in secular Western nations and reflects on the legal system of Islam in its classical context as applied in its traditional homeland of the Middle East and also in South East Asia...

  • 10 July

    Book: Minor Marriage in Early Islamic Law

    In Minor Marriage in Early Islamic Law, Carolyn Baugh offers an in-depth exploration of 8th-13th century legal sources on the marriageability of prepubescents, focusing on such issues as maintenance, sexual readiness, consent, and a...

  • 10 July

    Book: Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith

    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 gender issues...

  • 8 July

    Shi’a Sects: Kitab Firaq Al Shi’a +PDF

    The earliest surviving work on Shia sects, Kitab Firaq al-Shia by al-Nawbakhti offers a uniquely Twelver Shia perspective on early Shia movements, including the Zaydis, the Ismailis, and extremist sects (ghulat)...

  • 8 July

    Book: The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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)...

  • 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...

  • 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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