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In this book, Abdulaziz Sachedina rejects this informal consensus, arguing instead for the essential compatibility of Islam and...

This book discusses three Islamic human rights approaches: secular, non-compatible, reconciliatory (compatible), and proposes a contextual interpretive approach....

The present book, volume 8 of 8, is dedicated to the issues of waqf, hajr and wasaya. How they occur, what are the rules, what invalidates them and so...

Though there are important differences between Twelve-Imam Shi’aism and Sunnism on the level of the principles of the religion (usul al-din), on the level of the sharia and fiqh or jurisprudence there are surprisingly few places where...

The book gives a broad view of terrorism, balancing a political perspective on the processes which led to the adoption of the main conventions with a juridical approach that analyses the relevant provisions and...

This volume provides an anatomy of Islamic legal reasoning, centered on the basic concepts of human agency, responsibility, rights, legal hermeneutics, extra-textual sources of the law, and basic inquiries...

In his work “Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice”, Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal, as he himself claims, attempted ‘a qualitative overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that have...

This book explores the relationship between custom and Islamic law and seeks to uncover the role of custom in the construction of legal rulings. The book “Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory: The Development of the Concepts of Urf and Adah in the Islamic Legal Tradition” was written by Ayman …

This book volume 4 of 8, written by Muhammad Javad Moqniyyah, presents the similarities and differences in the issues regarding Hajj, the...

Today's world, plagued by war and greed, and media are inundated by the issues pertaining to human rights. What is the position of the Islamic Sharia regarding The Human Rights, as they...