The article titled, Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics: How Jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) Mobilizes Practical Reform, shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for normative change, and reviews their diagnostic capacity for evaluating various uses of...
March, 2019
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14 March
Article: Conceptualizing Shari‘a in the Modern State
This Article addresses the animated and evolving role that Shari'a, and Shari'a conceptions play in the contemporary world. There are various manifestations of this evolving role in the often dynamic, subtle, highly negotiated, and far from formalistic ways that Shari'a is animated in today's world...
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13 March
Book: Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
he purpose of this book is to shed light on the often misunderstood polygamous situation in modern Saudi Arabia...
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10 March
The Application of Religious Law in North American Courts: a Case Study of Mutʿa Marriages
This comparative study examines the legal requirements for marriage in Islam as well as the legal requirements for mutʿa within Shiʿi traditions...
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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....