Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on its utility. In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate …
August, 2018
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25 August
Book: The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence, Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools
The question of when, where, and how Islamic jurisprudence came into being has occupied research in...
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25 August
Book: Shariʻa in the West
The volume aims to stimulate further thought on a complex issue, and to open up new pathways for policymakers and...
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17 August
Book: Liberalism and Islam: Practical Reconciliation between the Liberal State and Shiite Muslims
This book examines the possibility of reconciliation between liberalism and Shiite Islam. By examining two key liberal theories, this book shows that secular liberalism is not justifiable in the view of Shiite Islamic thought...
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13 August
Azadari in the Sight of Maraje Uzzam and Ulema+PDF
All Maraj' (Shia Scholars) support Azadari and consider it to be a corner stone of Shia Islam .Some anti-Islam ,internal and external forces present the Fatawa (verdicts) and opinions of Maraji' Izam (Shia Scholars) with distortion and...
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12 August
People of the Book: a Joristic Approach
The aim of this book is to investigate the relations between Muslims and the people of the book and how they are connected to each other and who are...
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12 August
The Place of al-Mufid in the Development of Shi’i Kalam and Fiqh+PDF
By paying homage to al-Mufid and publishing his written works, the scholarship of this generation pays in fact the debt of gratitude to a man whose personality and ideas have had a continued presence throughout the rich and fruitful growth of...
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11 August
A Guide Book for Women on Rites of Hajj+PDF
This is a guidebook from a series of Guidebooks that aim to answer all the questions a woman would have in relation to Islamic issues in order to help them gain more Ma'rifat and...
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4 August
Book: Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period
In 1934 the New York Public Library purchased a sizable collection of 250 volumes of Arabic manuscripts through the fund for Semitic literature that had been provided by...
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2 August
Hajj The Islamic Pilgrimage According to The Five Schools of Islamic Law+pdf
The Islamic fiqh (jurisprudence) is divided into several sections: 'Ibadat (rituals) that include: ritual purity (taharah), prayers (salat), fasting (sawm), alms (zakat), one-fifth (khums) and pilgrimage (hajj)...