Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
These studies by Wael Hallaq represent an important contribution to our understanding of the neglected field of medieval Islamic law and legal thought. Spanning the period from the 8th to the...
May, 2018
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8 May
A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993
This bibliography offers a new and indispensable tool for both researchers and practitioners in the field of Islamic law. It supplements the bibliographies published by...
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8 May
Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Khawnsari in Picture
Ayatollah Khownsari was from the lineage of the 7th Imam, Imam Musa Kadhim (A, S), and was the son of Allamah Sayyid Asadullah. Ayatollah Khownsari was introduced to the knowledge of Islam from a very young age...
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7 May
Islamic Finance: A Viable Alternative in the Global Financial Market+PDF
Islamic finance based on sharia, or Islamic law, prohibits the payment of interest, or usury. Also prohibited are investments in certain industries such as those tied to alcohol, pornography, pork production, tobacco, and...
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7 May
Muslim Law in Britain: Reflections in the Socio-Legal Sphere and Differential Legal Treatment+PDF
This paper seeks to demonstrate that the dynamic reconstruction process of Muslim identity in Britain has remarkable reflections in the socio-legal sphere since law is a socio-cultural construct...
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6 May
Book: Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States+PDF
This book argues that Muslims recreate, reconstruct, redefine and restructure their Muslim laws as unofficial laws even within a secular or modern framework and thus undermine and obstruct, in various ways, the claim of official law to...
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5 May
Article: Digital Islamic Law: Purpose and Prospects
Although this sentiment dominates the current digital landscape, information about Islamic law and history often remains bound to its physical form and to the price of acquiring it...
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5 May
The Islamic Rule of Lenity by Intisar Rabb+PDF
This Article explores an area of close parallel between legal doctrines in the contexts of Islamic law and American legal theory...
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5 May
Verona Collection: Modern Islamic Clothing+Pics
When Lisa Vogl, a single mother, photographer and also a Muslim revert, converted to Islam in 2011, couldn’t find many options for modest clothing and realised that many other Muslim women shared the same sentiments. Gone are those days when it was difficult for Muslim women to find clothing that …
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4 May
Book: The Formation of Islamic Law
The fourteen studies included in this volume, at a basic level, aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries of..