Tag Archives: Islamic Jurisprudence

Religiously, death occurs when the soul departs from the body. If one acts righteously and adheres to his religious obligations his soul will be removed gently from his body, but if one fails to do so his soul will be...

Although the Muslim scripture, the Qur'an, contains various death themes that add significantly to our insight into the meaning of death, the concept is left undefined and always portrayed in close relationship with the...

The birth of the first 'test-tube-baby' in 1978 made headlines all over the world. All the world, with the exception of the Vatican, welcomed this new development in human science. After all, man is the prime creation of God. Allah has created the universe for man but created the...

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal ...

This dissertation examines the practice of legal disputations (munāẓara, pl. munāẓarāt, sometimes referred to as jadal or mujādala) among Muslim jurists of the 5th/11th century in Iraq and Persia. It does so by focusing on...

Understanding Islamic Sciences provides an informative introduction to six major disciplines in Islamic studies: Theology, mysticism, principles of jurisprudence, philosophy and...

The maxims of fiqh, or al-qawaid al-fighiyyah, are part of a specific science which falls under the category of kb. A maxim is defined as a general rule by which subsidiary fiqh rulings are known by directly. The maxims of fiqh are mostly comprehensive statements which combine multiple subsidiary issues …

In this book, Al-Imam Ash-Shawkani - may Allah shower blessings on him - provided the authentic texts upon which his chosen views in ad-Durar al-Bahiyyah were based, citing the sources of the narrations, affirming their...

Jurisprudence has remained the most important subject amongst Muslim scholars and is considered a discourse that can be traced back to the time of the...

In the case of Ayatollāh Sistani, there is another aspect that adds to this difficulty in that no writings of his own have been published. All that is available of his fiqhī, uṣūlī, rijālī and...