Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This collection of papers, edited by Damien Janos, represents a significant milestone: Janos’ own paper is probably the most interesting article ever published on Abū Bisr Mattā, founder of the Baghdad school, and there are several important studies of Ibn ʿAdī as...
January, 2018
December, 2017
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30 December
Article: Muslim Family Law in Southern Thailand
This study titled “Muslim Family Law in Southern Thailand: A Historical Overview” aims to describe the development of Islamic law through the different periods of governments in southern Thailand. Muslims have long a history of practicing Islamic law where Muslim communities are the minority. In Thailand, past governments have positively included …
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30 December
Hijab, Meaning, Identity, Otherization and Politics: British Muslim Women
The fourth report in the British Muslim Expectations of Government series has been commissioned to highlight and identify Muslim responses and requirements...
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28 December
Book: The Legal Thought of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī
This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505). In spite of the enormous popularity that al-Suyuti's works continue to enjoy amongst scholars and students in the Muslim world, he remains underappreciated by western academia...
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28 December
The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th and 18th Centuries
This lavishly illustrated book collects papers delivered at the third Gingko conference: “The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During 17th ̶18th Centuries.”...
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27 December
Book: Principles of Upbringing Children +PDF
Education means inculcation of knowledge, or imparting the meanings of the contents of curricula. But upbringing is moulding of personalities on desired lines. The society can be transformed with proper upbringing of its...
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24 December
Law and British Muslims: Domination of the Majority or Process of Balance?
This volume broaches the subject of neutrality and the law with the specific experience and expectations of Muslims in the UK. Having discussed the various theoretical critiques of law as objective and universal, it proceeds to draw on Muslim voices from across the UK in order to propose the grounds …
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24 December
Book: American Exceptionalism, Eurocentrism and Otherisation of Muslim
Professor Saied Reza Ameli’s scholarly book on “American Exceptionalism, Eurocentrism and Otherisation of Muslim” is an important examination of contemporary debates related to questions of Western oppression and liberation movements...
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23 December
The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
This book brings much needed clarity to the history of Salafism and revises common accounts of a little known yet much talked about Islamic intellectual trend. Henri Lauzière has skillfully fleshed out the genealogy of Salafism, and his work will have an...
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20 December
Conferences on Islamic Unity Held in Nigeria +Pics
Conferences on Muslim Unity organized by the Islamic movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) continued in different cities in Nigeria were scholars from different Schools of Thought stressed the ideal and importance of the...