Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This comparative study examines the legal requirements for marriage in Islam as well as the legal requirements for mutʿa within Shiʿi traditions...
March, 2019
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10 March
Women in Traditional Sharīʾa: a List of Differences between Men and Women in Islamic Tradition
This article surveys early Islamic legal opinions concerning differences between women and men related to law, politics, and personal conduct...
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7 March
Book: Najaf, Portrait of a Holy City
Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq’s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for...
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5 March
Video: English Women Wearing ‘Hijab’ 100 Years Ago
This footage shows that women in the North of England wear hijab just over 100 years ago...
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5 March
Book: Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
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3 March
British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
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3 March
Book: The Twelver Shiʻa as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears
This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons....
February, 2019
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26 February
Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” paradigm has reached its limits of …
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25 February
Fatima al-Zahra’ in the Noble Qur’an
What follows in this brief booklet is a commentary of three specific chapters from the Noble Qur’an which speak about the spiritual greatness and significance of the only daughter of...
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25 February
Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and....
