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...
Read More »Laws and Practices: What is the Fast of the Month of Ramadan
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...
Read More »Call for Papers: Succession in Islamic Law
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...
Read More »Do all the Fuqaha Say that Smoking is Forbidden?
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...
Read More »Ijtihad, Intellectual and Legislative Development
Muslims do not believe in the conciliatory Ijtihad that sets out to justify the legal reality of many cases of deviation.
Read More »Call for Applications: Research Fellowship, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard
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)....
Read More »Islamic Shari’a Law, Neotraditionalist Muslim Scholars and Transgender Sex-Reassignment Surgery: A Case Study of Ayatollah Khomeini’s and Sheikh al-Tantawi’s Fatwas
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...
Read More »Māʼidah al-Khamr – A Jurisprudential Discussion by Haider Hobbollah
This is a very popular discussion, and the famous opinion is that it is ḥarām to eat or drink on a mā’idah or a sufrah – which is essentially anything upon which you place food for consumption – while there is alcohol being consumed on...
Read More »Imam Khomeini’s Innovations in Changing Sex in Spousal Sentence
One of the recent issues of jurisprudence is the issue of "sex change". This, in addition to transforming the sex of a person, changes his legal and jurisprudence life. The gender of a person changes from man to...
Read More »How Was Hijab Enacted in Islam?
How Was Hijab Enacted in Islam? Did it become obligatory gradually or instantaneously? Did the rules, which were applicable to the Holy Prophet’s wives, have any role in the obligation of.....
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