Tag Archives: Robert Gleave

In Imāmī legal theory, the akhbār of the Imams form one of the material sources of law, alongside the...

The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a....

This is the lecture series organized by the Islamic College, will serve a forum for interaction and dialogue between the eminent scholars from the East and...

According to public relation of Research Institute of Hawza and University an international webinar meeting on ‘A Review on Dr. Robert Gleave’s Conception about Dispute between Akhbari and Usuli’ will held on 16 December, 2020. Subject Webinar: A Review on Dr. Robert Gleave’s Conception about Dispute between Akhbari and Usuli …

As an example of the processes at work in the collection and presentation of akhbār, the writer examines the issue of tayammum, ritual purification by...

Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI), IAIS, University of Exeter...

Dr. Rebecca Masterton embarks on a journey to discover the legend of Imam Hussain (pbuh) through the eyes of academia...

Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq’s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for...

In this essay, the writer examines one area of substantive law (furū' al-flqh) which figured prominently in the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute in Shī̒̒'ī legal history: the legality of the marriage of one man to two women descended from the daughter of the...

In this volume, two classical texts of legal theory (usul al-fiqh) are analysed. The authors of these works belonged to two schools of....