Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This article examines the political theology of contemporary (2011-2012) Pakistani Shi‘a traditional scholars (ulema)....
May, 2022
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5 May
The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View
Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Sayyid argues that the Quran and the Hadith—the two primary sources of...
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4 May
Conciliation in the Qurʾan: The Qurʾanic Ethics of Conflict Resolution
Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in...
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4 May
Illustrating an Islamic Childhood in Syria: Pious Subjects and Religious Authority in Twelver Shi’i Children’s Books
Shi’i children’s books participate in their readers’ formation by explaining and illustrating pious norms in terms of emotional attachments, rituals, and...
April, 2022
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28 April
Pilgrimage, Consumption and Rituals: Spiritual Authenticity in a Shia Muslim Pilgrimage
The aim of this study is to understand how authenticity is evoked in a religious pilgrimage and the relationship between authenticity, rituals and...
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28 April
Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement
This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states....
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28 April
The Quran in Shia Jurisprudence
The purpose of this study is to cover the meaning and role of the Qur'an in Shiite jurisprudence. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, the history of the compilation of the...
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27 April
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces
The book entitled “Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siecle Egypt” explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of...
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26 April
Educational Change through a Post-Modern Perspective
This paper analyses postmodern theory of education writings and illustrates some of the problems and alternatives in the realm of education, through and....
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26 April
Justice in Imam Ali’s Political Thought
Analysing two concepts of people’s role and the duties of religious democratic government from Imam Ali’s perspective is the aim of...
