Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This book details the jurisprudence related to Hajj as per the rulings of Ayatullah al-Uzma, Sayyid Ali Khamenei. Topics such as conditions that make Hajj obligatory, rites of Hajj and Umrah, their respective requirements and...
August, 2017
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25 August
Book: Women and Shari’a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK
Women and Shari’a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK is a critique of a paradigm that calls for the introduction of Islamic law in Western legal systems as a means of...
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23 August
Book: The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
The book focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of...
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17 August
Book: Islamism and Islam by Bassam Tibi
In this important and illuminating book, Bassam Tibi, a senior scholar of Islamic politics, explores the true nature of contemporary Islamism and the essential ways in which it...
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9 August
Book: Introduction to Jurisprudential Maxims
Jurisprudential maxims (al-qawa‘id al-fiqhiyyah) play an important role in determining one's legal duty in particular situations. When applied, these maxims - such as the 'Maxim of Purity', the 'Maxim of...
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3 August
Article: Shi‘i ‘Ulama and Ijāza during the Nineteenth Century
There were two types of ijāzas: an ijāza of ijtihād and an ijāza of riwaya. Modern researchers maintain that an ijāza of ijtihād permitted the holder to exercise ijtihād, and that attaining the ijaza was a prerequisite to...
July, 2017
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27 July
Book: Fiqh al-Aqalliyyāt: History, Development, and Progress
The Writer examines the development of a contemporary internal Muslim debate on the production of a new form of Islamic jurisprudence, Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat, or the...
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25 July
Book: The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market
This book attempts to provide an insight that how religious interpretation, market economy, state interventions and consumption practices create a complex phenomenon in everyday social life that defines the process of...
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25 July
Islamic Economy and Social Mobility: Cultural and Religious Considerations
This book offers a broad perspective on how a country’s place in the global stratification relates not only to her economic and technological capabilities, but also to her identity and orientation in areas of...
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21 July
Book: Coercion and Responsibility in Islam
In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for...