Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This book, published on the advice of His Eminence Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, provides a comprehensive list of traditions from the infallibles on Jihad al-nafs or the Struggle of the Self, and it serves as both a theoretical lesson and a practical manual for every wayfaring believer to implement....
November, 2024
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19 November
Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East...
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18 November
Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance....
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14 November
Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law
This Book explores an expansive cross section of topics in ninth- to twelfth-century Hanafi legal thought, ranging from sexual crimes to consent to marriage, to show that early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, …
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3 November
Imāmī Thought in Iran During the Ilkhanid Period: The Ḥimṣī Rāzī Family
The present study, focusing on the Ḥimṣī Rāzī family, which flourished in Iran during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, showcases what can be achieved by gathering and piecing together relevant paratextual material that is preserved in manuscripts, providing insights into the scholarly profiles of its members....
October, 2024
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28 October
Shia Muslims: Our Identity, Our Vision, and the Way Forward
In a time of exceptional complexities, where the risk of being subjected to misinformation in the global media is prevalent, it is important to find trustworthy resources to attain true understanding. This booklet was written to clarify misinformation about the principles and goals of Twelver Shia Muslims....
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6 October
Islamic Laws of the Female Reproductive Cycle: Menstrual, Postpartum, and Non-Menstrual Bleeding
Islamic Laws of the Female Reproductive Cycle offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the Islamic rules surrounding the female reproductive cycle. While Islamic laws are universal, women face specific guidelines for menstruation (haydh), non-menstrual bleeding (istihadhah), and....
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2 October
The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication
This book marks a welcome shift in research from the kinetic to the communicative evolution of this complex political organisation. It analyses forensically the way Hizbullah shapes its discourses at both strategic and tactical levels. Penetrative and revealing, this book builds on the....
September, 2024
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30 September
Hizbullah and the Politics of Remembrance: Writing the Lebanese Nation
By examining the ideological production of Hizbullah, especially its underground newspaper Al Ahd, the author offers an account of the intellectual continuity between the early phases of Hizbullah's emergence onto the political stage and its present day...
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7 September
God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
In his new book, God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Sajad Jiyad draws on original sources and hundreds of interviews during decades of fieldwork inside Iraq to show how Sistani, as the revered senior Shia cleric in a Shia-majority country, commands the loyalty of millions of faithful....