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...
January, 2020
December, 2019
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14 December
Intisar A. Rabb
Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History at Harvard University and as a...
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14 December
Wael B. Hallaq
Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico-historical forces subsumed by...
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14 December
Morgan Clarke
Morgan Clarke is an anthropologist of the Arabic-speaking Middle East with a particular interest in contemporary Islam, especially Islamic law and its relationship to positive law, secular ethics and the...
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14 December
Robert Gleave
Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI), IAIS, University of Exeter...
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14 December
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Professor and IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto...
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14 December
Joseph Franz Schacht
Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of...
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3 December
The End of Traditional Islamic Jurisprudence in Hermeneutics of Moḥammad Mojtahed Shabestarī
This article is devoted to the contemporary Shi'a Iranian religious scholar and thinker Moḥammad Mojtahed Shabestarī (b. 1936)...
October, 2019
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30 October
Book: Philosophy and Jurisprudence in the Islamic World
This book brings together the study of two great disciplines of the Islamic world: law and philosophy...
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30 October
Trends of History in Qur’an by Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
If we refer to the Qur'an in the form of a question an idea which has already been investigated and discussed by various schools of human society, we can be guided by the Qur'an as to which is the best...
