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This paper aims at studying the fifth approach that studies the presence of intellect and rationality in Islamic history, culture, and...

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim analyzes how these two concepts -the nurturing and upkeep of children, or 'custody', and caring for the child's education, discipline, and property- relate to the welfare of the child, and traces the development of an...

The book is focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the...

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...