Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The book contributes to the scant qualitative literature on divorce and religious experience. It counters media and widespread assumptions of Islamic marriage and divorce as backward and anti-American...
April, 2018
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25 April
Book: Halal Food Production
This book summarizes the fundamentals of Halal food production, serving as a valuable reference for food scientists, food manufacturers , and other food industry professionals...
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23 April
A Comprehensive List of Halal Food Products in US Supermarkets
The 7th edition was research in July 2005 for the sole benefit of Muslim communities in US and Canada...
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23 April
Protection of Individuals in Times of Armed Conflict Under International and Islamic Law
The aim of the book has been to make an in-depth study of the Islamic law and the international humanitarian law in a comparative framework with reference to the subject under consideration...
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4 April
Ijtihad in Twelver Shiism: The Interpretation and Application of Islamic Law in the Context of Changing Muslim Society
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate whether Islamic laws, without relaxing the nature of the Shari 'a, could be expanded and adapted to meet the changing needs of modem Muslim societies....
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1 April
Article: Sayyid Musa al-Sadr, the Lebanese State, and the Left
This article revisits Sayyid Musa’s engagement with the Lebanese state, and his approach to the Left and its secularist programmes...
March, 2018
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21 March
Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric +PDF
The paper, titled "Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric: Redefinition of Islamic Law and Authority in Usuli Shi‘ism," analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Murtada al-Ansari...
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20 March
The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition
This boos will address some of the key questions here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings...
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17 March
Book: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era +PDF
In the book, Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era, Colin Imber has put together and edited four essays by Norman Calder that have never been published...
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15 March
Wahhabism-A Critical Essay by Hamid Algar
In this Critical essay, Hamid Algar, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, writes about the rise of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, arguing throughout that it has seriously distorted the fundamental teaching of Islam and functioned for decades as the ideological mainstay of the...