Martyr Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was a notable Shia cleric, philosopher, and ideological founder of the Iraq Islamic Dawa Party
Read More »Ijtihad, Fatwa, and Culture; Study Of Uṣūl al-Fiqh on Islamic Law Elasticity
Islam as a religion has a law discussion device that gives the scholars of Islamic law an independence to create and find exact solution for any facing...
Read More »Shi’ism Revisited: Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary Times
Shi'ism Revisited moves beyond theoretical questions of reformation to address specific ways that Islamic law is being revisited by jurists....
Read More »Imam Khomeini’s Ijtihad on the Islamic Government
Imam Khomeini’s great contribution was that he moved beyond the traditional Shi‘i political thought to urge establishment of the Islamic government even in the absence of the...
Read More »Can A Woman Reach the Rank of Ijtihad in Religious Seminaries?
A worthy interaction of Islam with science, and requiring that from every Muslim man and woman, has resulted in women always studying the sciences in Islamic communities and finally some of...
Read More »A Cursory Glance at Ayatollah Sistani’s Unique Ideas in Ijtihad
In the case of Ayatollāh Sistani, there is another aspect that adds to this difficulty in that no writings of his own have been published. All that is available of his fiqhī, uṣūlī, rijālī and...
Read More »Article: Islamic Law and Post-Ijtihadism
This Article will explore the religious component of post-Islamist discourse. It will argue that, in all probability, the discourse on ijtihad will be replaced by the...
Read More »Book Review: Kirmānī Shaykhism and the Ijtihād
Denis Hermann’s Kirmānī Shaykhism and the Ijtihād: A Study of Abū al-Qāsim Khān Ibrāhīmī’s Ijtihād wa Taqlīd is a valuable and welcome addition to the existing scholarship on...
Read More »The Role of Ijtihad in Legislation by Martyr Mutahhari
The terms 'mujtahid' and 'ijtihad' are nowadays among those which have acquired great currency, even sanctity, among the Shi'ah. One would be surprised to know...
Read More »Does the Qur’an Praise or Prohibit Taqlid and Imitation?
Taqlid is among topics about which, one cannot give a general rule, but rather its goodness and badness differs due to conditions. It is sometimes admirable and...
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