Tag Archives: Islamic Law

Ibn Al Arabi, the mystic scholar of the 13th century, highlights the ambiguities of language and the polysemantic, multifaceted text of the Quran. With Al Arabi's help...

The Book of Jihad" (Kitab al-Jihad) is part of the fragmentary "Book of the Disagreement among Muslim Jurists" (Kitab Ikhtilaf al Fuqaha') by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari...

The author argues most cogently that the Islamic Shari'a is a social construct shaped by the prevailing norms and sustained through the subsequent centuries as...

The author manages to cover all topics related to the Sunnah-its status, its legislative force, the stages that led to its recording then he presents the views of those that have ...

This book is An important and long-standing text on Islamic law. From a foundational author, This is an important book for any...

This is a translation of one of the best-known academic works of the Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. Written in plain language ...

In this book, the author talks in detail about the importance of a family and expounds on the merits and demerits of the joint as well as the nuclear family...

In this text, Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi has outlined the fundamentals of Shari'ah and how to live by the teachings and laws of Islam. He discusses Taqlid, understanding of the laws and the...

Legal maxims reflect settled principles of law to which jurists appeal when confronting new legal cases. One such maxim of Islamic criminal law stipulates that judges are to avoid imposing hudūd and other sanctions when beset by...

Providing law clerks and legal assistants to Constitutional and Supreme Courts as well as PhD students, post Docs and researchers with an opportunity for comparative critical analysis of case law...