Tag Archives: Islamic Law

Iran’s criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentences—according to Amnesty International, the country has the world’s highest rate of capital punishment per capita. Less known to outside observers, however, is the Iranian criminal code’s recognition of forgiveness, where victims of...

The verdict on listening to music might be unclear and confusing to many Muslims. So our goal in these articles is to make a clear explanation on case 20 in the second volume of “Minhaj Al-Salehin” According to the verdict of...

This book, drawing on both International and Islamic Law, explores the rule of law, and freedom of expression and its practical application in the Muslim world...

I perform my prayers in an Iranian chador through which a part of my hair and arms can be faintly seen. Due to the same reason I do not use this kind of chador outside. Now my question is that whether I am allowed to use this kind of...

The Muslim fast of the month of Ramadan is a continuation of the long history of fasting in the Abrahamic faiths. The self-improvement benefits of fasting make it an important means of improving one’s faith and practice of...

The conference addresses the role succession law played in Muslim communities in the past, how it unfolds today and what it implies for future generations...

Islam prevented humans of eating or drinking or using everything that is harmful for health and the more harmful the prevention of its cause would be more serious until it reached the level of...

Muslims do not believe in the conciliatory Ijtihad that sets out to justify the legal reality of many cases of deviation.

In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: January 31, 2023)....

By studying the fatwas, the paper analyzes the main juridical reasons behind the fatwas of Khomeini and Al-Tantawi, who might be called neotraditionalists, and the issuance of such progressive fatwas through their classical methodology of...