The Sparkbrook Masjid and Islamic Centre in Birmingham organised a conference last December titled “Unity of Ummah in the light of the Sirah of the Prophet of Islam”, attended by ulama (religious scholars) and representatives of all Islamic schools of thought...
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Ulama and Islamic scholars around the world have urged all Muslims and Islamic countries to terminate all ties with Israel in a bid to save Palestine...
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The paper explores the role and meaning of maṣlaḥa and its possible appropriation in the field of Islamic legal and economic thought, as laid down by various medieval and contemporary Muslim scholars...
Read More »IUMS Urges Saudi Arabia, UAE to Free Clerics
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Wednesday called for the release of Muslim scholars and preachers detained in Saudi Arabia and UAE...
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More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic verdict, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled by the government on Tuesday says....
Read More »Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Junayd al-Kātib al-Iskāfī
Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Junayd al-Kātib al-Iskāfī, known as Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī, was an Imami scholar of fiqh and kalam in the fourth/tenth century. Ibn al-Junayd was born in Iskaf near Baghdad. He was a teacher of al-Shaykh al-Mufid. Ibn al-Junayd and Ibn Abi Aqil al-'Ummani are both called "al-Qadimayn" (that is, two ancient scholars of fiqh)...
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Sheikh Adam Suhu a member of the IMN said that unfortunately, Sheikh Zakzaky’s left eye has lost vision as a result of Nigerian army’s attack two years ago and now he has a problem in his right eye...
Read More »Project: Understanding Shari’a – Custom, Gender, the State and Violence
This two year project addresses how Muslim legal scholars have used the idea of a perfect past to try and change the imperfect present...
Read More »A Conference in Honor of Ayatollah Wa‘iz-Zadeh Held in Mashhad+Pics
The third National Conference on Interpretation and Exegesis of the Holy Quran in the last century of the Seminary of Khorasan, entitled “Intellectual Quran Researcher”, and in honor of the great contemporary researcher Ayatollah Muhammad Wa‘iz-Zadeh Khorasani, with the presence of the professors, jurisprudents, academics and scholars of the seminary …
Read More »School of Ahl al-Bayt the Best Way for Muslim Unity
If it is permissible for Muslims to follow the four schools, the school of Imam Ja'far Al-Sadiq would have more right to be followed. Both Abu Hanifah and Malik were students of Imam Ja'far. Al-Shafi'i was a student of Muhammad Ibn Al-Hassan Shalbani who was a student of...
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