Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research deal with the problematic epistemic ruptures generated by the onset of modernity and the socio-politico-historical forces subsumed by...
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Morgan Clarke is an anthropologist of the Arabic-speaking Middle East with a particular interest in contemporary Islam, especially Islamic law and its relationship to positive law, secular ethics and the...
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Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of...
Read More »Int’l Conference on Jurisprudence, Law and Religious Research to Be Held in Iran
Called upon God Almighty, the Network of Virtual Universities of the Islamic World will provide an international conference on jurisprudence, law, and religious research with the effective support of...
Read More »Book: Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations
Much contemporary scholarship on Islamic law focuses either on Shari'a's development and structure in the premodern era, or on efforts to reconstitute and apply it in the modern Muslim world. In this comprehensive book...
Read More »Usūl Al-Fiqh : Beyond Tradition+PDF
Anyone who ever takes the intellectual history of religion seriously is bound to deal with the notion of originality either directly or obliquely. And perhaps more than any other religion, the originality of Islam, of...
Read More »Article: Shari’ah Perspective on Green Jobs and Environmental Ethics
This article focuses on reviewing green jobs from the Islamic perspective, and concepts and principles such as squander (israf), cleanliness (nizafah), waste (Iitlaf), no-harm (La zarar) and causation (Tasbib) are directly mentioned as a necessary condition for...
Read More »‘Islamic Law and Theology in Context’ Conference to Be Held in Germany
An International Conference titled ‘Islamic Law and Theology in Context - The Treatise-Literature (rasāʾil) as Documentation of Socially Relevant Discussions in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies (13th - 19th Centuries)’ will be...
Read More »Article: Al-Shāfi’ī’s Position on Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Criminal Law
This article will critically examine al-Shāfi’ī’s complex views on the use of qiyās as a method for establishing culpability under Islamic criminal law and, then explore how his position corresponds to the human rights paradigm in the contemporary age...
Read More »New Released: The Laws of Islam by Ayatollah Modarresi +PDF
The Laws of Islam is the English-language legal manual of Grand Ayatollah al-Modarresi which provides the reader with a concise overview of the Islamic obligations and recommendations, both personal and...
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