Ayatollah Mohaghegh Damad stated that unfortunately with unrealistic interpretations, misunderstandings and religious distortions, human beings have subconsciously turned to polytheism and fought with others in...
Read More »Al-Sarakhsī’s Contribution to the Islamic Law of War +PDF
This paper examines the contributions of the Ḥanafī jurist al-Sarakhsī (d. 483 AH/1090-91 CE) to the development of the Islamic tradition of war. By examining al-Sarakhsī’s treatment of the use of force by both state and non-state actors in...
Read More »The Myth that Religion is the Cause of War
Atheists and secular humanists consistently make the claim that religion is the #1 cause of violence and war throughout the history of mankind. One of hatetheism's key cheerleaders, Sam Harris, says in...
Read More »Al-Tabari’s Book of Jihad
The Book of Jihad" (Kitab al-Jihad) is part of the fragmentary "Book of the Disagreement among Muslim Jurists" (Kitab Ikhtilaf al Fuqaha') by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari...
Read More »Protection of Individuals in Times of Armed Conflict Under International and Islamic Law
The aim of the book has been to make an in-depth study of the Islamic law and the international humanitarian law in a comparative framework with reference to the subject under consideration...
Read More »Defence, The Quiddity of Jihad in Islam
One of the points that now come into question is the Islamic view of the essence and quiddity of jihad...
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