Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and...
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This article outlines the potential to contribute to the scholarship on sectarianism and the literature on Muslims in Europe. While also previewing the five articles included in the special issue, it proposes a framework to unpack the diverse nature and complex shaping of...
Read More »Imam Ali, A Great Unique Man in the History of Islam
In this study, we aim to portray the magnificent personality of the great unique man of Islamic history by expressing a brief point of the virtues of...
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The main claim of this paper is that Imam Ali (599-661), the most revered religious scholar among Shiite Muslims, made the first explicit attempt to conceptualise rights in the history of...
Read More »Anglophone Islam: A New Conceptual Category
In this paper, Dr. Abdul-Azim Ahmed seeks to propose a new concept for contemporary Islamic studies, that of Anglophone Islam, which will allow a broader range of scholarship to be contextualized in....
Read More »MA Thesis: “The 12 Shiah Imams: Infallible or Imaginary?”
this thesis argues that the infallibility of the 12 Shia Imams is grounded in early Shia literature, has shaped Shia theology, and has become a significant part of the Shia identity today....
Read More »PhD Thesis: Muslim Populations in a Western Context: Lived Experience of Stigma and Marginalization
This research examined the lived experiences of Muslim populations in Western societies with a focus on stigma and marginalization....
Read More »A Comparison of Women’s Position in the Tasnim Exegesis of the Qur’an and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the 2030 Education Framework
This research has employed descriptive and text analysis methods as well as library and field research methods to do a comparative study on international documents and the articles of these...
Read More »Boundaries of Life and Death from the Viewpoint of Shi‘i Islamic Jurisprudence
The article provides an overview of the various opinions, theories and debate concerning the boundaries of human life (the beginning and end of human life) in Shi‘i Islam and the important consequences in terms of the use of...
Read More »Ijtihad, Intellectual and Legislative Development
Muslims do not believe in the conciliatory Ijtihad that sets out to justify the legal reality of many cases of deviation.
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