Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
I think the most painful detail in Karbala is assassination of the six-month-old baby, because the baby represents complete innocence...
September, 2019
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7 September
Imam Hussain, the Mediator: A Structural Analysis of the Karbala Drama according to Abu Ja´far Muhammad b.Jarir al-Tabari
In this study, the Karbala Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to...
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4 September
Usūl Al-Fiqh : Beyond Tradition+PDF
Anyone who ever takes the intellectual history of religion seriously is bound to deal with the notion of originality either directly or obliquely. And perhaps more than any other religion, the originality of Islam, of...
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3 September
Book: The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...
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1 September
Video: Why So Many US Prisoners Are Converting to Islam?
Hundreds of thousands of inmates in the United States have found a sense of community and solace in Islam, with Muslims now making up about 10 to 15 percent of all American prisoners...
August, 2019
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31 August
Book: Devoted to The Truth: Allama Amini, The Author of al-Ghadir
Allama Amini is most famous for his research project al-Ghadir which offers an in-depth analysis of the appointment of Imam Ali at Ghadir Khumm and the...
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29 August
Article: Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe+PDF
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Mapping Shia Muslim Communities in Europe...
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29 August
Article: Shari’ah Perspective on Green Jobs and Environmental Ethics
This article focuses on reviewing green jobs from the Islamic perspective, and concepts and principles such as squander (israf), cleanliness (nizafah), waste (Iitlaf), no-harm (La zarar) and causation (Tasbib) are directly mentioned as a necessary condition for...
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28 August
Prohibition of Insulting Others Religions in Shia Jurisprudence
Insulting or disrespecting other religions and their sacred figures and places is a broad and significant subject in Shi‘a jurisprudence. The question often arises as to whether insulting sanctities is legally prohibited or...
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26 August
Book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking that was reacting against the slaughter of the decades-long war and...