Tag Archives: Ijtihad

Taqlid literally means “to follow (someone)”, “to imitate”. In Islamic legal terminology it means to follow a...

In this article the author, drawing on Islamic sources, presents his position based on his philosophical views and his...

This book presents usul al-fiqh, or Islamic legal theory, as comprising three major theories or methodologies.

This article presents information on Islamic seminary of Hillah, the revival of ijtihad in it and introduces its prominent scholars

Shi'ite Scholars in the Field of Principles of Jurisprudence(Usul-ul-Fiqh).

This book, which is edited by Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke, is concerned with religious authorities, men and women claiming, projecting and exerting religious authority within a given context. Who speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and …

The book Islamic Law and the State is swims against the current of modern Islamic legal scholarship.