Easily the most authoritative study of the subject, this collection of essays on halal, an ostensibly ritual designation and practice, allows us to see how it becomes the crucial category by which Muslim subjects and markets around the world are both created and...
June, 2017
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8 June
Book: Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Sharia and Legal Pluralism
Arskal Salim’s Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia offers a rich and interesting ethnographic study that looks into a number of relevant questions not only in Aceh, but also in other parts of the archipelago and religiously plural societies more...
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6 June
PhD Thesis: Expediency in Shiite Jurisprudence by Yahya Jahangiri
Expediency is one of the titles which have important statuses in the Islamic jurisprudence and its association with religious decrees is clarified while determining its concept and it specifies the authorities of...
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3 June
Article: The Roots of Formation of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Political Thought
For analyzing the factors effective on formation of Imam Khomeini’s political thoughts, it is necessary to study the personal, social and political affairs and...
May, 2017
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31 May
Book: Islamic Counselling: an Introduction to Theory and Practice
The book is designed as an introduction for counsellors, its goal is to inform the reader about how the diverse roles of the Islamic counsellor fit together in a comprehensive way and to provide the...
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31 May
Book: Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking
Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking, is a thorough, deeply conceptual, analytical and applied work in the area of epistemological foundation of Islamic...
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30 May
Article: Struggling with Political Limitation
The fourth/tenth century Shia theologian and jurist al-Shaykh al-Mufid discusses juristic authority in his main...
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29 May
The Muʿtazilī and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-Muʿtamad fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh:A Bibliographical Note
The Muʿtazilī and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-Muʿtamad fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh:A Bibliographical Note was written by...
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22 May
Article: Shīʿī Marriage Law in the Pre-Modern Period
This article addresses the differences between jurists of the three Shīʿī sects – Zaydīs, Ismāʿīlīs, and Twelver Shīʿīs – concerning the...
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22 May
Book: Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law
In this path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic...