Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
In this article, Liyakat Takim discusses the prayer of a traveler at places designated as holy in Shi‘i hadith and juridical...
March, 2017
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1 March
Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric
This paper analyses the reconceptualization of Islamic law and authority as defined by Shaykh Murtada al-Ansari the influential scholar and first sole supreme exemplar of the...
February, 2017
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28 February
Combining or Separating the Daily Prayers: Shi‘i and Sunni Perspectives
In this paper, the writer initially discusses sectarian polemics in the eighth and ninth centuries as stated in Shi‘i and Sunni polemical and...
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28 February
Khums: A Support for Financial Independence, part 1
In this paper, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi examines the impact of khums on meeting the financial needs of the Muslim...
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27 February
Book: Kharaj in Islamic Law
The book, written by Ayatollah Sayyed Hussain Modarresi Tabatabaei, is an attempt to clarify all aspects of kharaj from the viewpoint of...
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26 February
Book: Divorce according to the Five Schools of Islamic Law
Divorce is discussed in this present book, volume 6 of 8, written by Muhammad Jawad Moqniyyah, which three main criteria for divorce are: adulthood, sanity and...
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25 February
The Lineage of Children Born by Sperm Donation: A Shiite Perspective
There are three persons that have a possible legal relationship to the child born from this method - the sperm donor (biological father), the...
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25 February
Lineage and the Rights of Cloned Child in the Islamic Jurisprudence
Lineage in the Islamic law is one of the most basic human rights each individual inherits from his family. When modern assisted reproductive technologies appeared in recent decades, the...
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25 February
Book: A New Perspective: Women in Islam
The book discusses and expounds various issues regarding the rights and laws that pertain to women in Islam, and unwraps some of the...
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23 February
Book: The Five Schools of Islamic Law
The author reports on every opinion of Islamic Laws from five Schools of Islamic thought i.e. Hanafi, Shafe'ie, Humbali, Maliki and Jafari, as...