Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
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...
August, 2017
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...
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14 July
Book: Performing Religion: Actors, contexts and texts-Case studies on Islam
Research in Islamic Studies to date has taken texts primarily as a medium of information. This volume emphasizes the material quality of texts, both written and oral. It focuses on the...
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13 July
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
This book, an historical survey of the Islamic injunction to command right and forbid wrong, a biographical exposé of Muslims who understood and practiced this principle, and a bibliographical reference, is a...
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10 July
Book: The Rights of Women in Islam
The problem of family relations in our age is not so simple and trivial as may be resolved by filling up questionnaires by boys and girls by holding seminars — like the seminars I saw and heard of, and the...
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7 July
Book: Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt
Legal Reform and Gender Justice examines the interplay between legal reform and gender norms and practices. It examines the processes of advocating for, and contesting the khul‘ and new family courts laws, shedding light on...
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7 July
Book: Islamic Divorces in Europe
This study evolved out of the conflicts that occur because of the – historically, religiously and culturally-determined – differences in the modes of establishment, procedures and forms of divorce when the recognition policies of European states collide with Islamic...