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The book “The Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression and Islamic Law” drawing on both International and Islamic Law, explores the rule of law, and freedom of expression and its practical application in the Muslim world. The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value …

Through his new exhibition, now on display in Cambridge, photographer Ahmed Eckhard Krausen is showcasing the diversity of Islam in Europe and its close links to Christianity and Judaism...

The book “Twelver Shiism” provides a historical account of the development of this sect, from the conflicts over the successors of the Prophet Muhammad following his death in 632 to the fall of the Safavid dynasty in 1722...

What is meant by Islamic Unity? Does it mean that one religion should be chosen from among its different sects, and the rest be put aside? Or does it mean that what is held in common in all of them should be adopted, and the differences ignored, thus creating a new faith which would not resemble any of...

Ahl al-Bayit, the first Shia Mosque Complex opened on first December 2017 in Ottery, Cape Town South Africa...

The Muslim population in some European countries could triple by 2050 while it will barely change in others, according to new projections released by the Washington-based Pew Research...

Sometimes it is hard to see that our children are indeed little human beings, essentially miniature versions of us. So it happens that when they exhibit “adult” feelings and thoughts, we don’t know how to react and...

The Institute of Islamic Theology at the University of Osnabrück invites paper proposals for its conference entitled Innovative Approaches in Islamic Sciences and Education, to be held in...

The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and the problems it poses) from a resolutely...

The conference -The Early Islamic Empire at Work, The View from the Regions Toward the Center- aimed to understand the political and economic workings of a pre-modern empire, the Islamic Empire (660-940 C.E.), which stretches over almost the entire Hellenistic-Roman world from the Atlantic to...