It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very scriptural foundations and its....
Read More »Ph.D. Dissertation: The Envoys of the Hidden Imam+PDF
This Ph.D. Dissertation by Edmund Hayes seeks to answer why the doctrine of the Occultation of the Twelfth Imam was successful, among all the possible solutions to the crisis in the Imamate that were proposed in the first few years after the martyrdom of the...
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This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers France and consists of an...
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Najaf has been the cradle of Shī῾ī learning for many centuries. According to Najaf tradition, it has been so ever since the prominent...
Read More »Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam
This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less studied poet, historian, and exegete al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015)....
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The present study discusses the scarce available data about Sālim b. Maḥfūẓ and the reception of his K. al-Minhāj, and it includes an editio princeps of the portion of the work that is preserved in MS Malik 1650....
Read More »Caliphate and Imamate: An Anthology of Medieval Muslim Texts on Political Theology
This volume offers an engaging introduction to the diverse writings of influential scholars representing six classical Islamic schools of theology: Sunnism, Zaydism, Twelver Shiʿism, Muʿtazilism, Ibadism, and....
Read More »Islam: Threat to West, Capitalism and Corporations
This book answers the question "Why is Islam perceived as evil from the Western perspective?" The book's arguments are based on facts, circumstances, incidents, and evidence cited in more than a....
Read More »Islamic Economy: Its Ideological and Legal Foundations
When we study the Islamic economy as a way which Islam prescribes for individual and social behavior in the economic field and examine Islam's rules in this area, we can conclude that its most important attribute is...
Read More »Between Jabal ʿAmil, Karbala and Jerusalem: The Lebanese Shi‘a and the Struggle for Palestine
This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East....
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