Library

January, 2018

• 10 January

  Book: Early Islamic Law in Basra in the 2nd/8th Century

  

  The manuscript of the has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ibāḍī Basran community and the emergence of...
• 10 January

  Article: Shiʿi Preaching in West Africa

  

  While there has been much emphasis on new types of media for the dissemination of Islamic ideas, this article focuses on the conventional Friday khuṭba. Lebanese Shaykh al-Zayn was trained in Najaf, Iraq and was sent by Musa al-Sadr to serve the...
• 9 January

  Constructing a Worldview: Al-Barqī’s Role in the Making of Early Shī‘ī Faith

  

  Based on the earliest Shīʽī sources extant, this book seeks to portray the worldview of the Shīʽa prior to the crystallization of their beliefs and doctrines...
• 8 January

  Bankers and Politics: The Network of Shi‘i Moneychangers in 8-9 Century

  

  The article argues that apart from exchanging currencies, some of these moneychangers acted as financial agents for the imams, collecting funds from their following, receiving donations on their behalf, and with the collected money regulating the internal affairs of the Kufan Shi‘i...
• 8 January

  Allāma al-Hilli and the Early Reception of Katibi’s Shamsiya

  

  In the following article, the writer examines how the commentary Ḥillī wrote on the Shamsīya, al-Qawāʿid al-jalīya fī sharḥ al-Risāla al-Shamsīya, firts in with his other works on logic, and how it responds to Kātibī’s logical program in general and to the syllogistic in particular. Al-Risāla al-Shamsīya fī l-qawāʿid al-manṭiqīya …
• 6 January

  Book: Hawza-yi ‘Ilmiyya, Shi‘i Teaching Institution

  

  The current volume is a translation of a series of article on the traditional system of Shia seminary sducation known as the hawza. After beginning with information about the hawza, the book begins by discussing the formative period of hawza in the early Islamic period and then traces the development of...
• 4 January

  Book: Scriptural Polemics: The Qurʾān and Other Religions

  

  This volume is an important contribution to understanding the impact of the key polemical Qur’anic passages about Judaism and Christianity that shaped Muslim theology of the ‘other.’ Sirry’s meticulous reading of the Qur’anic commentaries to expound this theology is thoroughly grounded in both the classical as well as the modernist-reformist …
• 2 January

  Article: Zakat and Khums as Two Obligatory Alms in Islam

  

  Among the most important chapters of Islamic jurisprudence that has its root in the holy Qur’an and Islamic narrations are the ones on Khums and Zakat. The goal of this article is to review various aspects of these two religious financial obligations...
• 1 January

  Book: Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond

  

  This collection of papers, edited by Damien Janos, represents a significant milestone: Janos’ own paper is probably the most interesting article ever published on Abū Bisr Mattā, founder of the Baghdad school, and there are several important studies of Ibn ʿAdī as...

December, 2017

• 30 December

  Article: Muslim Family Law in Southern Thailand

  

  This study titled “Muslim Family Law in Southern Thailand: A Historical Overview” aims to describe the development of Islamic law through the different periods of governments in southern Thailand. Muslims have long a history of practicing Islamic law where Muslim communities are the minority. In Thailand, past governments have positively included …