Tag Archives: Islamic laws

The following translated passages come from a larger work in Arabic by Sayyid Muḥammad Saeed al-Ḥakim in which he...

In this path-breaking new book, the author shows how authority guaranteed both continuity and change in Islamic...

It is important to mention a basic thing that blindly following the views and manners of anyone completely is...

This book is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and...

In this reading of Islamic legal hermeneutics, Robert Gleave explores various competing notions of literal meaning, linked to...

Taqlid literally means “to follow (someone)”, “to imitate”. In Islamic legal terminology it means to follow a...

The time of ẓuhr and ʿaṣr is from noon until sunset. However, the very beginning of this time, for the duration of...

In the different states of America there are different law and rules in force for marriage and divorce. But their principles are...

Why should we say Prayers, Why should a person go for the pilgrimage of House of Allah? Why it is forbidden to take...

The notion of the husband knowing is not a big thing but is one of those things that is blown out of...