Library

August, 2023

• 2 August

  Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia

  

  The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early...

July, 2023

• 30 July

  Islamic Laws of Medicine by Ayatollah Sistani

  

  this book is an example of the comprehensive and robust knowledge of the religious seminaries, which provide splendid services to those who want to faithfully apply Islamic rules to every aspect of their lives....
• 21 July

  The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition

  

  This book is a mammoth undertaking that interrogates the archival record to meticulously trace the relationships that existed between scholars and their texts....
• 18 July

  Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian Encounters in Northern Nigeria

  

  This article analyses how the circulation of ideas and hybrid rituals between Shia Muslims and Christians reveals a much more intentional political process whereby minority religious groups consciously create shared experiences and a sense of commonality in the face of...
• 18 July

  The Formation of Muslim Minorities within a Muslim Majority Context: the Case of Shia Groups in Nigeria

  

  Focusing on al-Ḥaraka al-Islamiyya fī Nayjīriyā (Islamic Movement in Nigeria), which is the largest Shia group in the country, this article examines Shia’s growth and social relations between its members and...
• 16 July

  The Jurisprudential Views of Imam Khumayni on Music

  

  This article, written by Mina Avanj (a doctoral student in the field of Iranian Revolutionary History), aims to explore Imam Khumayni’s views on music and examine the theoretical developments he made in this regard....
• 13 July

  Shīʻī Theology: A Translation of Kashf al-Murad fī Sharḥ Tajrīd al-I‘tiqād

  

  Shi‘i Theology is a translation of the seminal Arabic work Kashf al-Murad fi Sharh Tajrid al-I‘tiqad, a cornerstone of Twelver Shi‘i theology that has long served as a foundational textbook in seminaries. It is the most distinguished commentary on Tajrid al-I‘tiqad by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi’s (d. 1274) whose life and …
• 10 July

  Politics of Non-Motherhood in Shi’a Islam

  

  The focus and interest in this article are to investigate representations, moral and theological contemporary imagery of non-motherhood in Shi’a Islam by looking into the case of Lady Fatemeh-Masoumeh of Qom as a....
• 5 July

  From the Divine to the Human Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic

  

  Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and...
• 5 July

  Unearthing Abraham’s Altar: The Cultic Dimensions of dīn, islām, and ḥanīf in the Qurʾan

  

  This study discusses three fundamental Qurʾanic terms and argues that each has a salient cultic dimension. These terms are dīn, islām, and ḥanīf. The common understanding of these concepts, both in Islamic learning and in modern scholarship, generally does not emphasize or...