Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
There are some rare photos of Late ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Bahjat which passed away in 17 May 2009...
May, 2017
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16 May
Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law +PDF
This book discusses three Islamic human rights approaches: secular, non-compatible, reconciliatory (compatible), and proposes a contextual interpretive approach....
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14 May
Book: Waqf, Hajr and Wasaya according to the Five Schools of Islamic Law
The present book, volume 8 of 8, is dedicated to the issues of waqf, hajr and wasaya. How they occur, what are the rules, what invalidates them and so...
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14 May
Crowdsourcing shari`a: Digital Fiqh and Changing Discourses of Textual Authority, Individual Reason, and Social Coercion
Using primary sources drawn from websites, blogs, and online message boards, I will explore the ways in which digital fiqh alters the prescriptive discourses of this...
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12 May
Temporary Marriage (mut’a) in Islamic Law +PDF
Though there are important differences between Twelve-Imam Shi’aism and Sunnism on the level of the principles of the religion (usul al-din), on the level of the sharia and fiqh or jurisprudence there are surprisingly few places where...
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12 May
Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism +PDF
The book gives a broad view of terrorism, balancing a political perspective on the processes which led to the adoption of the main conventions with a juridical approach that analyses the relevant provisions and...
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10 May
Structural Interrelations of Theory and Practice in Islamic Law +PDF
This volume provides an anatomy of Islamic legal reasoning, centered on the basic concepts of human agency, responsibility, rights, legal hermeneutics, extra-textual sources of the law, and basic inquiries...
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9 May
Book: Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
In his work “Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice”, Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal, as he himself claims, attempted ‘a qualitative overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that have...
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8 May
The History of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law
The history of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation...
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7 May
Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory +PDF
This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. The book “Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory: The Development of the Concepts of Urf and Adah in the Islamic Legal Tradition” was written by Ayman …