Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
In The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD, the authors present a study of the funerary inscriptions based upon fieldwork completed in Bahrain between 2013-2015....
April, 2025
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12 April
The Role of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr in Shii Political Activism in Iraq from 1958 to 1980
On 8 April 1980, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was executed. His execution arousedno criticism from the West against the Iraqi regime, however, because Sadr had openly supported the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in Iran and because the West was distracted by the turbulence in Iran that followed the revolution....
March, 2025
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18 March
Tawātur in Islamic Thought: Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy
Tawātur is the concept that information yields certainty if acquired through a sufficient number of independent channels. Tawātur in Islamic Thought is an attempt to unravel the twisted historical threads of the conception and usage of tawātur across diverse Islamic disciplines, in light of both Western academia and...
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12 March
Al-Hakim Mosque: Religion and Propaganda in Fatimid Egypt
This study also highlights the mosque's significance as a primary medium for Fatimid propaganda (da’wa), aimed at disseminating Fatimid religious ideology throughout the Islamic world...
February, 2025
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26 February
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Among the first books to delve into the making of the modern Islamic state, For Love of the Prophet reveals both novel political ideals and new articulations of Islam as it is rethought through the lens of the nation...
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14 February
Explanation to the Belief of Mahdism in Shi’a Imamiya by Late Ayatollah Saafi
The author debates, discusses and corrects the book “Islamic Messianism” written by the respected scholar, Abdul Aziz Sachedina, which gives erroneous impression to readers of the Real and Right Islam which Shia’sm is, and enabling readers to analyse faith to...
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14 February
20 Books and Articles about Imam Mahdi (as) +PDFs
What follows are twenty books and articles about the life of Shia twelve Imam, the Imam of the Age, Hjjat Ibn al-Hassan al-Askari peace be upon him...
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13 February
Law and Piety in Medieval Islam
Using an array of sources including manuals of law, fatwa collections, chronicles and obituaries, the book shows what it meant to be a good Muslim in the medieval period and how Islamic law defined holy behavior.....
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5 February
Ayatollah Khomeini: From Islamic Government to Sovereign State
This paper argues that the mature form of the political doctrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–89), Iranian Shiite religious authority and architect of the Islamic Republic of Iran, grew out of an encounter with the modern understanding of the state and the concept of....
January, 2025
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20 January
European Muslims and the Qur’an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification
The research presented in this volume seeks to analyse Muslims’ practices of translating, interpreting and using the Qur’an as a sacred object and, thus, pursues three main research agendas....