This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in...
Read More »The Core Concepts of the ‘Four Principles’ of Bioethics as Found in Islamic Tradition
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...
Read More »Personal Autonomy in Health Settings and Shi’i Islamic Jurisprudence
The rationale of this paper has been to high-light the conflict between the patients’ right to personalautonomy and medical and social...
Read More »Book: The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History
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...
Read More »Article: Rethinking Taqlid in the Early Shafi’i School
In this essay, the writer will pursue an alternative strategy towards reconstructing the history of taqlid within the early...
Read More »Article: Being a Young British Iraqi Shi’i in London
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...
Read More »Book: Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology
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...
Read More »Article: Joining the Islamic State from France between 2014 and 2016
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...
Read More »Between Hadīth and Fiqh: the “Canonical” Imāmī Collections of Akhbār
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...
Read More »Article: The Living Fiqh, or Practical Theology, of Muslim Humanitarianism
In this paper the writer analyzes the discursive practices emerging in the transnational Muslim humanitarian sector, documenting the emergence of a pervasive ethic of...
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