Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The subject of my thesis was the famous and controversial hadith about the Islamic prophet Muḥammad’s marriage to his wife ʿĀʾišah bt. ʾabī Bakr at a young age: according to the dominant version of the hadith, she was six or seven at the time of her marital engagement, and nine at the time of her....
November, 2022
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24 November
Ummah: A New Paradigm for a Global World
How can we live together without alienation, avoidance, and fear? How can we complement one another such that each of us can uniquely contribute to the making of our societies? To address these and other questions, Katrin A. Jomaa examines the….
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21 November
Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education
The book, 'Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education: Critical Perspectives on Teaching Islam in Primary and Secondary Schools', demonstrates why and how it is necessary to redesign Islamic Education curriculum in the.....
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20 November
Ph.D. Thesis: The Lived Experience of Muslim Women Subjected to Islamophobia
This study explores the subjective experience of five Muslim women who wear or wore hijab in the past, and faced Islamophobia, using psychoanalytic case study methodology....
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16 November
Ali, Figures of the First Master in Shī‘ī Spirituality
Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi‘ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that ‘Alī is the...
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14 November
The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam, Facets of Thought and Practice
The chapters in this open access book represent the most recent scholarship on the intellectual and spiritual life of the age and discuss what prepared the ground for its appearance as well as its achievements....
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14 November
Twelver Shī‘īsm and Answering Shī‘ī Reformists
As societies have meandered through different epochs, expansions and ideas, it has only been natural for existing notions and ideas to be challenged, and this is a necessary and natural part of...
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11 November
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi’ism
Twelve Infallible Men focuses on the role of narratives of the imams in the development of a distinct Shiˀa identity. During the tenth century, at a critical juncture in Islamic history, a group of scholars began assembling definitive works containing accounts of the...
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7 November
Contradictions of Civil Law with Islamic Law and its Implication on a Muslim’s Responsibility
This paper aims to understand the implications of civil law on a Muslim’s responsibility resulting from contradictions between civil law and Islamic law. The research uses the...
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4 November
Religious Diversity in Contemporary Shi‘i Thought: The Views of Ayatollah ‘Abdollah Javadi-Amoli and Professor Mahmoud Ayoub
This book analyses the views of two contemporary Shi‘i thinkers, Ayatollah ‘Abdullah Javadi-Amoli and Professor Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, who have tried to deal with the challenges posed by the above three types of theology from an Islamic...
