Publication

In this book the writer draws on the history and theological underpinnings of Shi'i Islam to argue that in today's Iran, politi and religion are neither rigid nor in...

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in...

In this study the writer aims to explore the roots of the 'Four Principles' in Islamic tradition and culture, and show that this particular set of principles are not something new but only...

The rationale of this paper has been to high-light the conflict between the patients’ right to personalautonomy and medical and social...

By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of...

In this essay, the writer will pursue an alternative strategy towards reconstructing the history of taqlid within the early...

Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of...

The present volume is dedicated to the study of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641–1731), an outstanding religious scholar, sufi thinker and man of letters from...

Among terrorists, two profiles were highlighted: first, individualswho commit violent actions within a radical group and second, individuals–so-called‘lone wolves’–who act in a...

As an example of the processes at work in the collection and presentation of akhbār, the writer examines the issue of tayammum, ritual purification by...