Articles

The fourth/tenth century Shia theologian and jurist al-Shaykh al-Mufid discusses juristic authority in his main...

The Muʿtazilī and Zaydī Reception of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-Muʿtamad fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh:A Bibliographical Note was written by...

This article addresses the differences between jurists of the three Shīʿī sects – Zaydīs, Ismāʿīlīs, and Twelver Shīʿīs – concerning the...

Using primary sources drawn from websites, blogs, and online message boards, I will explore the ways in which digital fiqh alters the prescriptive discourses of this...

The history of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation...

Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī’s maqāṣid al-sharīʿa paradigm is characterized as pragmatic epistemologically, more accessible and dynamic methodologically and employing a virtue ethic.

This text, prepared and published by Al-Ghadeer Center for Islamic Studies and translated by Hamid S. Atiyyah, reveals the facts about the Wahhabia doctrine and sheds lights on its origins, school of thought, and relation with...

The present paper seeks to assess various views from Islamic jurists relating to human cloning, which is one of the...

The pre-implantation embryo, as the product of human reproduction process through unconventional methods and as the result of advancement in...

In this paper, the writer attempts to delineate the Qur’anic position on peaceful coexistence with the “other” and also examines the classical juridical and exegetical pronouncements on...