Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Allama Amini is most famous for his research project al-Ghadir which offers an in-depth analysis of the appointment of Imam Ali at Ghadir Khumm and the...
August, 2019
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26 August
Book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking that was reacting against the slaughter of the decades-long war and...
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23 August
Shi’i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Mara A. Leichtman, the writer of the book, offers an in-depth study of Shi‘i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi‘i Islam of recent decades...
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23 August
The Emergence of Modern Shi‘ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran+PDF
This book specifically focuses on the origins and early development of the modern Usuli movement, a period that roughly spans the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...
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12 August
Book: Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia
In this authoritative biography, Muhammad Qasim Zaman offers a comprehensive and highly accessible account of Thanawi's multifaceted career and thought, whilst also providing a...
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12 August
Book: Gender, Governance and Islam
The book “Gender, Governance and Islam” Analyses the links between gender and governance in contemporary Muslim majority countries and diaspora contexts. Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis …
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6 August
Mosques: The 100 Most Iconic Islamic Houses of Worship
This book is the latest addition to the “Ultimate collection,” and is a journey though centuries and continents that brings readers to the threshold of 100 of the world’s most historically significant buildings that are home to worshippers of...
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4 August
Shaykh Mufid by Tamima Bayhom-Daou
The purpose of this book is to introduce the thought of an Imami Shiʻi scholar who lived and worked in Baghdad at the turn of the eleventh century and was the first of a line of scholars who helped establish a role for....
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3 August
Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age
From laws against the implementation of Shari‘ah in the United States to anger about the role of Shari‘ah in Egypt’s new constitution, many people are confused about the meaning of Shari‘ah in Islam and...
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3 August
Visions of Sharīʿa: Contemporary Discussions in Shī ͑ī Legal Theory
In Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory ( uṣūl al-fiqh) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of...