Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Conflict and polemic between Sunni Muslims and Shiites have a long history. In the contemporary era, this polemic has been accentuated by the conflictual situation in the Middle East, and it is also colouring the minority Muslim...
July, 2019
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6 July
A Turn in the Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Twentieth Century Usūl al-Fiqh
Law and theology in Islam, as for Christians in medieval Europe, have always had a symbiotic relationship. But whereas western Christians accorded a secondary holy status to the Emperor Justinian’s corpus juris civilis, Muslims could not...
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6 July
Maqāṣid al-Sharīʻa and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought: An Examination
Maqasid al-Shari'a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought looks at the effectiveness of Maqasid al-Shari'a - as understood as both a classical legal hermeneutical construct developed by premodern Islamic legal theoreticians...
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5 July
Marjaʿiyyah from Below: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religious Authority +PDF
This article presents reflections from an ethnographic study of the meaning and perception of the marjaʿiyyah among Shiʿa lay Muslims in Kuwait...
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5 July
The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
In The Great Theft, Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars, argues that Islam is currently passing through a transformative period no less dramatic than the movements that swept through Europe during the...
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3 July
Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law: Theory and Applications
The concept of Islamic Law has not been precisely defined, as some authors use the terms to reference the Shari’a while use it to refer to fiqh (jurisprudence)...
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3 July
Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 3
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and...
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2 July
Book: Wahhabis Fitna Exposed +PDF
This text is a detailed and well-referenced reply to the booklet “What is Shi’aism?” which has been printed in Nairobi and distributed throughout East Africa by the Wahhabis, in order to...
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2 July
Book: Globalization, Violence and World Governance +PDF
In this work Laura Westra draws our attention to the failure of international law to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the ravages of neoliberal agendas in an era of globalization...
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2 July
Article: Towards a United Shia Youth Community+PDF
Twelver Shia Muslims in the Netherlands, a minority within the Muslim minority, are living as an ethnically fragmented community that is organised along ethnic lines. In recent years, Shia young adults started to...