Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
In the following article, the writer examines how the commentary Ḥillī wrote on the Shamsīya, al-Qawāʿid al-jalīya fī sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsīya, fits in with his other works on logic, and how it responds to Kātibī’s logical program in general and to the syllogistic in...
March, 2019
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13 March
Book: Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
he purpose of this book is to shed light on the often misunderstood polygamous situation in modern Saudi Arabia...
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7 March
Book: Najaf, Portrait of a Holy City
Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq’s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for...
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5 March
Book: Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
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3 March
British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
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3 March
Book: The Twelver Shiʻa as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears
This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons....
February, 2019
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25 February
Fatima al-Zahra’ in the Noble Qur’an
What follows in this brief booklet is a commentary of three specific chapters from the Noble Qur’an which speak about the spiritual greatness and significance of the only daughter of...
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24 February
The Qur’an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue+PDF
Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than...
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24 February
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi’ite Islam
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shiite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in...
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18 February
Islam in Modern Societies: Facts, Issues, and Perspectives in the West
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...