Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Islamic law, and criminal law in particular, have been closed since its heyday of legal scholarship to external influences and new theoretical arguments and constructs...
September, 2017
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15 September
Article: The Ṣāliḥiyyah School in Qazvin and Shia Religious Authority
This article introduces the Ṣāliḥiyyah school in Qazvīn, an innovative religious school founded in...
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15 September
Book: Contemporary Ijtihad limits and controversies
Written from the internal viewpoint of Muslims, the book discusses the resurgence that Islamic law is experiencing in...
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13 September
Book: The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence: Law Under the Fatimids
As regards Ismaili law, in particular, it is still a largely unexplored field of study. Al-Qadi Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man is generally considered as the founder and the greatest exponent of Ismaili jurisprudence. Many of his works have been lost; scattered information on...
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9 September
Book: Cosmopolitan Orientation of the Process of International Environmental Lawmaking: An Islamic Law Genre
process of regulation in the field of international environmental law belies the complexity of environmental issues that need to be addressed in managing global environmental resources. Although the regulatory process has succeeded in...
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6 September
Book: Toward the reform of private Waqfs
High-net-worth Muslim investors are increasingly investing and accruing wealth in the United Kingdom and the demand for Shariah-compliant wealth-planning structures, such as Waqfs, is growing. This study accepts that Waqf law, as...
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4 September
Book: Reconciling Islam, Christianity and Judaism
At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a...
August, 2017
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31 August
Book: Shi’i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq
In the nineteenth century, the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala in Ottoman Iraq emerged as the most important Shi'i centres of learning. In a major contribution to the study of pre-modern Middle Eastern religious institutions, Meir Litvak analyses the...
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30 August
Book: Hajj – The Islamic Pilgrimage
As a result of unity of opinion and unanimity arising from believing in one God and being the followers of one Book and one Prophet, all Muslims stand in a single rank facing Kiblah and go round a...
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28 August
Book: Manasik of Hajj by Ayatollah Sistani
Hajj is one of the basic principles of Islam; its performance is one of its essentials, and its non- performance is a grave sin...
