Tag Archives: fiqh

In this book Ralph Grillo undertakes a careful and nuanced dissection of much of the current controversy around Muslim families and...

In this book, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are...

The traditionist-jurisprudents (fuqahā' ashāb al-hadīth) of the earlier ninth century C.E. proposed that Islamic law be inferred from...

well-known work in Imamiyya fiqh (jurisprudence), written by Abu al-Qāsim Najm al-Din Jaʾfar b. Hasan Hilli, known as...

Wael Hallaq’s An Introduction to Islam Law, an introductory book for the students of Islamic Law, is an...

This book is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and...

This book is addressed to a four-part audience: a wide readership of persons both within and without Islamic...

This book explains the paradox of a system rooted in the medieval era thriving in the...

In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to...

Taqlid literally means “to follow (someone)”, “to imitate”. In Islamic legal terminology it means to follow a...