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This paper aims to shed light on the way Ṣadrā interprets al-Kāfī and particularly to determine his understanding of the ʿaql (intellect) at the cosmic (as first created being) and...

Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of...

This research focused on gender issues affecting Muslim societies elsewhere in the world as well as masculinity and men within a gendered framework form part of the scope of this...

Political participation is seen as the backbone of a political state and an element ensuring the efficiency and reliability of a political system....

This paper examines (1) how non-verbal messages—defined as those that are not delivered face-to-face—trigger consumers’ interaction adaptation; (2) how experience and...

Reforming Modernity is the first work that examines an under-researched contemporary Arab philosopher and his unprecedented philosophical project from the...

Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire is an excellent collection of genuinely pathbreaking studies that explore how Muslim law was taught, interpreted, applied and reshaped in the...

This article evaluates the extent to which Islamic law and fatwas in Malaysia can control the practice and promulgation of...

In his profound research The Shi‘as of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority, Andreas Rieck has produced an important volume and has covered the historical evolution of Shi‘as in Pakistan...

This article explores the transnational contest over sacred authority in contemporary Shi’i Islam as it plays out between contemporary maraji’ (sources of emulation) and the...