Jurisprudence has a history of eleven hundred years, meaning that for eleven centuries, without a break
Read More »Book: Prohibiting Takfir: Fatwas of Shi’i Scholars
This book comprises the religiously legal injunctions (fatawa) of grand maraji‘ al-taqlid and prominent Shi‘i religious scholars concerning the legal prohibition (hurmat) – according to the Qur’an and the hadith – of insulting revered Islamic figures and calling the People of...
Read More »Book: Descendants of the Family of the Prophet in Contemporary History
This book analyses the history of four major branches of the Alid family: Bahr al-Ulums, al-Hakims, al-Khoeis, and...
Read More »Ijtihad in Twelver Shiism: The Interpretation and Application of Islamic Law in the Context of Changing Muslim Society
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate whether Islamic laws, without relaxing the nature of the Shari 'a, could be expanded and adapted to meet the changing needs of modem Muslim societies....
Read More »Article: Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law
The traditionist-jurisprudents (fuqahā' ashāb al-hadīth) of the earlier ninth century C.E. proposed that Islamic law be inferred from...
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