The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Humboldt University of Berlin, invites applications for a Full Professorship “Islamic Law in the Past and Present.”...
Read More »Islamic Macroeconomics: A Model for Efficient Government, Stability and Full Employment
This book proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and..
Read More »Islamic Laws of the Will According to the Rulings of Ayatollah Sistani Released
This booklet describes the Islamic laws related to the will (al-wasiyyah), which are among the most important issues that Muslims must understand and implement, because they are...
Read More »Indonesian Province Bans Women to Dining with Non-Mahram in Restaurant
A district in Indonesia’s deeply Islamic Aceh province has banned men and women from dining together unless they are married or related, according to an official who said it would...
Read More »Job Opening: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law and Learning in Shiite Islam
The full-time posts are available on a fixed term basis from 1st April 2019 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for a period of 2 years in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, College of...
Read More »Human Cloning from Shia Jurisprudential Point of View. Part 2
Human cloning is of the issues that have recently come to the fore. As examining an issue in jurisprudence is impossible before shading light on its all corners, exploring its inner and outer aspects, and defining its good and bad consequences; the religious researchers and...
Read More »Book: Pragmatism in Islamic Law: a Social and Intellectual History
Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on its utility. In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate …
Read More »Book: Shariʻa in the West
The volume aims to stimulate further thought on a complex issue, and to open up new pathways for policymakers and...
Read More »Human Cloning from Shia Jurisprudential Point of View, Part 1
Cloning is of two types: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning would involve cloning cells from a human for use in medicine and transplants...
Read More »Sex Reassignment Surgery in the View of the Shia Jurists
In this paper, after explaining the reasons for the "sex reassignment", a review of related jurisprudential rulings issued by the famous Imamiya jurists will be presented...
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