Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The paper, titled "Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric: Redefinition of Islamic Law and Authority in Usuli Shi‘ism," analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Murtada al-Ansari...
March, 2018
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20 March
The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition
This boos will address some of the key questions here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings...
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17 March
Book: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era +PDF
In the book, Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays by Norman Calder that have never been published...
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15 March
Wahhabism-A Critical Essay by Hamid Algar
In this Critical essay, Hamid Algar, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the rise of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, arguing throughout that it has seriously distorted the fundamental teaching of Islam and functioned for decades as the ideological mainstay of the...
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14 March
Handbook of Research on Islamic Business Ethics
This Handbook explores the interweaving relationship between Islamic business ethics and the market, and examines the critical role that ethics can play in ensuring that business thrives...
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12 March
Book: Secular Nationalism and Citizenship in Muslim Countries
The book “Secular Nationalism and Citizenship in Muslim Countries: Arab Christians in the Levant” Explores the role of Christian contributions to Arab–Islamic politics and society and provides a study of the historic roots of Christianity in the Arab-Islamic world...
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11 March
Book: Shi’i Law and Leadership: The Influence of Mortaza Ansari
The book "Shi'i Law and Leadership" analyzes the influence of the nineteenth century scholar and head of the international Shi'i community, Mortaza Ansari...
February, 2018
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28 February
Article: ‘We the Jurists’: Islamic Constitutionalism in Iraq +PDF
This article examines the implications of incorporating Islamic law in a modern democratic constitutional context. The new Iraqi constitution's designation of Islamic law as "a source of law" placed the issue of Islamic law's role in new democracies at the...
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26 February
The History of an Islamic School of Law: The Early Spread of Hanafism
Using rich material drawn mainly from medieval Islamic biographical dictionaries, Nurit Tsafrir offers a thorough examination of the first century and a half of the school’s existence, the period during which it took shape...
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26 February
Against Conceptualism: Islamic Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
This article focuses on conceptual debates surrounding the incorporation of Islamic law (shari’a) into the constitutions of Middle Eastern countries as “a source,” “a primary source,” or “the primary source” for legislation against which the validity of ordinary legislation may possibly be reviewed...