Tag Archives: Mujtahid

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

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

In this article the writer intend to consider briefly the concept, definition, and types of ijtihad and then examine briefly the criteria and justification of takhti’ah and taswib according to both Shi‘a and...

This paper analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Shaykh Murtada al-Ansari the influential scholar and first sole supreme exemplar of the...

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

The necessary conditions to be available in a leader are directly connected to the nature of the Islamic government. Disregarding...

This book, which is edited by Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke, is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and …

A glance at the political life on ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Behbahani a leading mojtahed of Tehran