Ijtihad Network Islamic Jurisprudence
Expediency is one of the titles which have important statuses in the Islamic jurisprudence and its association with religious decrees is clarified while determining its concept and it specifies the authorities of...
June, 2017
May, 2017
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22 May
Book: Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law
In this path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic...
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20 May
Book: An Introduction to Islamic Law+PDF
This book attempts to correct misconceptions about Islamic law, first by giving a brief account of...
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14 May
Crowdsourcing shari`a: Digital Fiqh and Changing Discourses of Textual Authority, Individual Reason, and Social Coercion
Using primary sources drawn from websites, blogs, and online message boards, I will explore the ways in which digital fiqh alters the prescriptive discourses of this...
April, 2017
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24 April
Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition
In Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a madhhab-law tradition’ of jurisprudence underpinning the four...
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8 April
Article: Islamic Perspectives on Human Cloning
The present paper seeks to assess various views from Islamic jurists relating to human cloning, which is one of the...
March, 2017
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26 March
Article: An Outline of the History of Restriction on Ijtihad
The original in Arabic appeared under the title Ta'rikh hasr al-ijtihad a publication of Madrasat al-Imam al Mahdi ('a), Khunsar, and edited by...
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15 March
Article: Introduction to Islamic Sciences, Part II
This article touches upon two subjects: Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) and Usul of Fiqh (Principles of Fiqh). Fiqh – the profound understanding of religious rulings - is the most comprehensive subject in...
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11 March
Ijtihad: Its Meaning, Sources, Beginnings and the Practice of Ra’y
The sources of ijtihad according to Shi'ah and the Ahl al Sunnah, put together, are: the Book, the Sunnah, ijma’ (consensus), ‘aql (reason), qiyas (analogy), istihsan, masalih mursalah, istislah, sadd al dhara'i’, fath al dhara'i; madhhab al sahabi, shari’at al salaf, ‘urf, istidlal, and...
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9 March
Article: Ijtihad: Takhti’ah or Taswib
In this article the writer intend to consider briefly the concept, definition, and types of ijtihad and then examine briefly the criteria and justification of takhti’ah and taswib according to both Shi‘a and...
