…are the various commentators and international women’s organizations, and human rights organizations that are lobbying against various applications of Islamic law—they might say something like that about shari’a too.” Download…
…meal with family, Nazish was walking with her husband and pushing her three-year-old son in a stroller when her attacker allegedly shot her near the heart, killing her instantly.” Download…
Domestic Abuse and American Muslims Read More »
…well-meaning people confused about the actual nature of the scientific evidence and the religious prescriptions regarding all sorts of practices involving any form of cutting in the genital areas.” Download…
Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Perspective Read More »
…principles of diversity and harmony evident in the Qur’an, al-Hibri describes a Qur’anic worldview in which God’s will is supreme and arbitrary hierarchies among men and women are denounced. Download…
An Islamic Perspective on Domestic Violence Read More »
…you who believe and those who have knowldge.’ The Qur’aneven asks rhetorically in one passage, ‘Say, are those two equal: those who know and those who do not know?’” Download…
Symposium on Religious Law Read More »
…victims’ neighbors in a village in northern Kunduz Province. Family members were involved, both in the stoning and in tricking the couple to return home after they had fled.” Download…
Patriarchal Customs, Not Shariah Law Read More »
…day. As a student, then critic, of the two leading legal minds of his time, namely, Muhammad al-Shaybani and Malik ibn Anas, al-Shafii”presented a middle path between their thought.” Download…
Shafii Qawaid Fiqhiyya: ‘Al-‘Ada Muhakkama’ (Fourth/Tenth to Tenth/Sixteenth Century) Read More »
…Hanafī school’s perspective on ‘āda through the general principle ‘al ‘āda muhakkama’, or ‘custom is an arbiter’ from the earliest qawā’ id sources through those of the tenth/sixteenth century.” Download…
Hanafi Qawaid Fiqhiyya: ‘Al-Ada Muhakkama’ (Fourth/Tenth to Tenth/Sixteenth Century) Read More »
…second stage was the formal establishment of custom as one of the five major principles of jurisprudence, with its related conditions, restrictions, sub-principles and guidelines (al-taq ͨ īd al-fiqhī).” Download…
Āda and ‘Urf in Hanafi and Shafii” Fiqh Read More »
…employed when reaching his legal determinations: from using his own independent reasoning to referring to the sunna of the prophet as the authoritative precedent/source for reaching a legal decision.” Download…
An Introduction to the Study of Al-Qawaid Al-Fiqhiyya Read More »
EN 
AR