Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and...
June, 2023
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6 June
The Sharia Inquiry, Religious Practice and Muslim Family Law in Britain
This timely collection of essays from experts, scholars and legal practitioners provides a critique and evaluation of the Inquiry findings as a starting point for analysis and debate on current British Muslim family law practices in the matters of marriage and....
May, 2023
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31 May
Sunnis’ Perspectives regarding the Demise or Martyrdom of His Highness Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Riḍā (P.B.U.H)
The present study is seeking to figure out the selected idea indicating his highness’s being poisoned based on a descriptive-analytical research method and through investigating and scrutinizing the various ideas mentioned in the resources and references of Sunni scholars and...
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28 May
Religion and Contract Law in Islam, From Medieval Trade to Global Finance
Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this book explores the Islamic contract (‘aqd in Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads of convergent paths of....
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27 May
A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian....
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12 May
Islamophobia in France: The Construction of the “Muslim Problem”
Islamophobia in France is an English translation of Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed’s Islamophobie: Comment les e´lites franc¸aises fabriquent le “proble`me musulman.” In this groundbreaking book, Hajjat and....
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11 May
The Major Trends of Islam in Contemporary Malaysia and their Influence on the Form of Islamic Family and Penal Law
The aim of this article is to present selected major trends in Islam in contemporary Malaysia – its political representation (the dominant political parties: UMNO, PAS and PKR) and intellectual non-governmental groups (especially the NGO Sisters of....
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7 May
The Christian-Muslim Frontier: A Zone of Contact, Conflict or Co-operation
his book explores the complex social and political relationship of the frontier between Christianity and Islam, arguing that it should be understand as a zone of contact rather than a distinct line of....
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5 May
Ali, The Well-Guarded Secret: Figures of the First Master in Shi‘i Spirituality
Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi‘ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that ‘Alī is the first Master and...
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2 May
Religion and National Identity in Martyr Mutahhari’s View; an Analytical Review
Martyr Ayatollah Morteza Mutahhari is one of the Contemporary Iranian thinkers and intellectuals who tried to give a new definition of national identity. He believes that although there are some cultural, historical, racial, social and other factors that share in...