Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq’s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for...
Read More »Book: Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
Read More »British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
Read More »Book: The Twelver Shiʻa as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears
This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons....
Read More »Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” paradigm has reached its limits of …
Read More »Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and....
Read More »The Qur’an in Christian-Muslim Dialogue+PDF
Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than...
Read More »Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi’ite Islam
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shiite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in...
Read More »Islam in Modern Societies: Facts, Issues, and Perspectives in the West
The writer of this book considers that Muslims born in France and in the West now build their identity not from an imported model but from a strong sense of belonging to the nation, which they claim at the...
Read More »Book: Shari’a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...
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