Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Reforming Modernity is the first work that examines an under-researched contemporary Arab philosopher and his unprecedented philosophical project from the...
March, 2020
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18 March
Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917
Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire is an excellent collection of genuinely pathbreaking studies that explore how Muslim law was taught, interpreted, applied and reshaped in the...
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16 March
Criminalising Religious Pluralism: The Legal Treatment of Shi’ites in Malaysia
This article evaluates the extent to which Islamic law and fatwas in Malaysia can control the practice and promulgation of...
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16 March
Book Review: The Shi‘as of Pakistan – An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
In his profound research The Shi‘as of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority, Andreas Rieck has produced an important volume and has covered the historical evolution of Shi‘as in Pakistan...
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15 March
Shi’i Clerical Networks and the Transnational Contest over Sacred Authority: Dynamics in London’s Shi’i Triangle
This article explores the transnational contest over sacred authority in contemporary Shi’i Islam as it plays out between contemporary maraji’ (sources of emulation) and the...
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15 March
Mahdi Haeri Yazdi: An Insight into His Intellectual and Political Philosophy
Thus, this paper will seek to provide a brief biography and an insight into the contentious thoughts of Ayatollah Mahdi Haeri Yazdi....
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15 March
Optimal Design for the Halal Food Logistics Network
This research made an optimal design of the logistics network for Halal food by applying operations research (OR). Though the general logistics system and the...
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14 March
Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought
In this book, Hassan S. Khalilieh highlights Islamic legal doctrine regarding freedom of the seas and its implementation in...
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14 March
The ‘Formal’ Marjaʿ: Shiʿi Clerical Authority and the State in Post-2003 Iraq
This article argues that although Sistani’s authority has not been constitutionalized, it was indirectly and roughly ‘formalized’ through practices and...
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12 March
Book Review: Kirmānī Shaykhism and the Ijtihād
Denis Hermann’s Kirmānī Shaykhism and the Ijtihād: A Study of Abū al-Qāsim Khān Ibrāhīmī’s Ijtihād wa Taqlīd is a valuable and welcome addition to the existing scholarship on...
