This book concludes Laws on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, hajj, transactions, marriage, and other topics according to the Islamic law of Ayatollah Abul Qasim al-Khu'i.
April, 2020
February, 2020
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19 February
New Released: 12-Volume Encyclopedia of Fiqh of Nahj al-Balagha ‘ala al-Madhahib al-Sab‘a
The Institute for Sciences of Nahj al-Balagha affiliated with the shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a) unveiled the encyclopedia of Fiqh of Nahj al-Balagha ‘ala al-Madhahib al-Sab‘a in...
January, 2020
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20 January
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...
December, 2019
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28 December
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...
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28 December
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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14 December
Wael B. Hallaq
Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico-historical forces subsumed by...
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14 December
Morgan Clarke
Morgan Clarke is an anthropologist of the Arabic-speaking Middle East with a particular interest in contemporary Islam, especially Islamic law and its relationship to positive law, secular ethics and the...
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14 December
Joseph Franz Schacht
Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of...
November, 2019
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7 November
Int’l Conference on Jurisprudence, Law and Religious Research to Be Held in Iran
Called upon God Almighty, the Network of Virtual Universities of the Islamic World will provide an international conference on jurisprudence, law, and religious research with the effective support of...
October, 2019
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1 October
Book: Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations
Much contemporary scholarship on Islamic law focuses either on Shari'a's development and structure in the premodern era, or on efforts to reconstitute and apply it in the modern Muslim world. In this comprehensive book...
