Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This book shows the importance of neo-traditionalism in the changing conceptions of religious orthodoxy, religious authority and spirituality for young Muslims in the West....
October, 2023
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4 October
The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House
This book explores the Kaʿba as it has been conceptualised, represented and used by Muslims from the earliest period of Islam onwards....
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2 October
Moral Governance of the Prophet Muhammad (S)
This paper studies the meaning of morality and the various facets of the Prophet’s socio-political life from a moral perspective. To understand the moral nature of this governance, this series offers a description of the method of forming an Islamic nation and achieving power, form, structure, as well as the limits of power, the...
September, 2023
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28 September
Unity of the Islamic Schools of Thought according to Imam Musa al-Sadr
This article explores the thought and activities of Imam al-Sadr pertaining to the issue of unity and the important role he occupied as one of the leading figures within the Islamic unity movement....
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26 September
Shiʻi Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: Mashhad under the Early Safavid Shahs
This paper examines the period, under the aegis of the early Safavid shahs, when Mashhad was established as the preeminent Shiʻi pilgrimage center in Iran...
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19 September
God’s Emissaries: Adam to Jesus
The book presents a comprehensive theologically sound, captivating, and believable set of stories from Adam to Jesus. It portrays God’s prophets as the heroes they were, possessed of the most stellar of human traits, exemplary in every aspect of their....
August, 2023
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28 August
A Glance at Arbaeen Walk and Pilgrimage
This writing- addressing the eager Arba‘een pilgrims- while trying to inform pilgrims regarding the status and value of the Arba‘een Walk, also tries to acquaint them with their mission and that is to revere the name of the...
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18 August
Brief History of Shia Jurisprudence and Jurisprudents
Jurisprudence has a history of eleven hundred years, meaning that for eleven centuries, without a break
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17 August
The Role of Reason and Syllogism in Ijtihad
Some schools of fiqh which supported qiyas, especially the Hanafi school, believed in the role of reason in ijtihad....
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15 August
The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany
Rudolf Strothmann (b. 1877, d. 1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in....