Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This book, a collection of articles from the University of Gloucestershire’s annual Islam conference, is another effort at clarification. In this case, the presumed audience is British; most of the authors are based in the United Kingdom and the material they draw on...
April, 2017
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24 April
Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition
In Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a madhhab-law tradition’ of jurisprudence underpinning the four...
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24 April
Book: Shariʿa Councils and Muslim Women in Britain
In this book Tanya Walker draws on extensive fieldwork from over 100 cases to argue for a radically different understanding of the setting and dynamics of the...
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23 April
Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada
The author presents a finely honed analysis of women's property rights in the medieval Islamic world based on a series of unique documents originating in the Islamic court of Granada in the...
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23 April
Book: Jihad – Challenges to International and Domestic Law
The meaning of 'Jihad' is not as straightforward as some might like it to be. This book aims to explore how its meaning has been manipulated since the rise of political Islam during the 1960s and to...
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22 April
Book: Islam and Economic Policy: An Introduction
This book explores whether public policy in Muslim majority countries has been influenced by Islamic economic discourse...
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20 April
Book: Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran
This is the first book on the relationship between Islamic law and the Iranian society during the...
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20 April
Book: Religious Legal Traditions, International Human Rights Law and Muslim States
This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in...
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17 April
Moral Rationalism and Shari’a: independent rationality in modern Shi’i usul al-Fiqh+PDF
Moral Rationalism and Shari'a is the first attempt at outlining the scope for a theological reading of Shari'a, based on a critical examination of...
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17 April
The Origin of Shia Usul al-Fiqh and its Systematization up to 5th Century , A.H
The thesis aims at studying the growth and systematization of Shi'i Usul al-fiqh in the fifth century, A.H....
