Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
What I saw through our 29 years of marriage life was his gentleness and patience. I do not remember that even a moment he became nervous without reason or even once he had talked to me...
June, 2019
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25 June
Muslim Women in Indonesian Religious Courts
This essay investigates the reasons underlying women’s increasing use of the Islamic courts by examining the attitude of Indonesian Muslim women towards divorce and divorce law as reflected in the narratives they present when petitioning for divorce in court....
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25 June
Discourse on Hudud in Malaysia: Addressing the Missing Dimension
This study argues that the discourse on hudud would not be complete unless hard questions surrounding its substance and practical procedures are....
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24 June
Despite the Absence of Kitaballah and Sunnati in Sunni Books, Sunnis Insist on It!
Does this tradition really exist in Ṣaḥīḥayn (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī)? Not at all! This is a weak tradition. It exists in no one’s book. Not in Bukhārī’s, Muslim’s, or Abū Dāwūd’s. No one has mentioned it in his book; not Nessāī, Tirmidhi, or Ibn Mājah. Not even one of the authors of Kutub al-Sittah or the six...
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23 June
Between Realism and Resistance: Shiʿi Islam and the Contemporary Liberal State
This Article divides modern Shi'i thought into four categories and concludes as a general matter that at least three of those categories appear possibly compatible with liberalism, and a fourth almost appears to...
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23 June
What Is Salat (Prayer) +PDF
Salat (Prayer), this standing and bending down; This way of sitting and laying the forehead on the ground; Uttering words in...
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22 June
The First and the Largest Encyclopedia on the Fatwa of Holy Defense Published
Believing in the role of the Fatwa given by the highest religious Marja’iyah about defending Iraq, its people, and its sanctities and its coincidence with the fifth remembrance of its announcement, Al-Abbas (pbuh) Holy Shrine accomplished a War History Encyclopedia about the...
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20 June
Book: Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and...
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15 June
Why Ayatollah Bahjat’s Father Banned Him Attending Ayatollah Qazi’s Classes
When his father was told about the situation, he wrote a letter (toward his son) that I am not content to see you attend anyone’s class but Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Hassan Isfahani’s...
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15 June
Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qurʾān and the Genesis of Sharīʿa
In this article, I propose to put into the balance the various theories (including my own) that have been advanced about the Qurʾān as a...
