Tag Archives: Islamic Studies

Wael Hallaq is one of the leading scholars in the field of Islamic law, and well qualified to evaluate the historical Shari‘ah, in comparison with both modern legislation and today’s heavily politicized presentation of Islamic law.....

The Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy invites you to present at the 6th Annual Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy and...

The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those interests....

In Understanding Islamic Finance Muhammad Ayub introduces all the essential elements of this growing market by providing an in-depth background to the subject and clear descriptions of all the...

James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law – religious scholarship and royal justice – undergirded legal practice in Cairo, the largest and richest city in the....

The Doha-based Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleased to invite scholars, academics and researchers to submit their research papers to a...

This Special Issue of Religions, “Muslim Identity Formation in Contemporary Societies”, seeks to explore new themes and trends emerging in Muslim majority, minority, and....

“Islam is an evil religion.” “It promotes violence.” These are some common labels used against Islam by the rightwing Christian media. Such bias is based on the historical stereotype that the Arabs forced the...

hen analyzing these discussions on Islam and human rights discourse into a typology they can provide insights where compatibility and non-compatibility lies, and where possible reinterpretation is...

This lecture will discuss the contents and context of The Book of Interim Times and Planetary Conjunctions (Kitāb al-Fatarāt wa-l-qirānāt) as well as the state of....