Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and...
Read More »Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qurʾān and the Genesis of Sharīʿa
In this article, I propose to put into the balance the various theories (including my own) that have been advanced about the Qurʾān as a...
Read More »Prohibiting the Pilgrimage: Politics and Fiction in Mālikī Fatwās
This study inventories and analyzes Mālikī legal opinions (fatwās) discouraging or prohibiting the pilgrimage to Mecca (the ḥajj) for Muslims in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, North Africa, and West Africa) from the...
Read More »The Rites of Hajj, Practical Treatise and Rules+PDF
This book discusses the importance of Hajj, one of the obligatory pillars in Islam. The secrets, conditions of necessity, different types of Hajj as well as ...
Read More »Book: Encyclopedia of Islamic Herbal Medicine
An authoritative reference work for anyone interested in herbal medicine, this book provides unprecedented insight into Prophetic phytotherapy, a branch of herbal medicine which...
Read More »Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history....
Read More »Book: The Shia: Identity, Persecution, Horizons
The Shia: Identity. Persecution. Horizons is a penetrating historical account about Shia Muslims, enlightening us about their genesis, their struggles and most importantly their contribution to the...
Read More »The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in 1970s Egypt
In this article, Aaron Rock-Singer, traces the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and...
Read More »Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries
This communication, Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries: A Zaydī Multitext Manuscript from the Glaser Collection, provides an expanded description of the contents of a Yemeni codex from the...
Read More »Fast of the Month of Ramadan: Philosophy and Ahkam +PDF
This text includes fasting in history, benefits of fasting, types of fasts, and the Prophet's preaching on Ramadhan. Also includes other...
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