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Author: Omer Awass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1009260901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines different persons, periods, places, and principles to weave a narrative about a practice that spawned a legal tradition.
Author: Emine Enise Yakar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1000456374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of iftā’ to better understand the process of issuing fatwās in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other. The practice of iftā’ is one of the most important mechanisms of Islamic law that keeps Islamic thought about ethical and legal issues in harmony with the demands, exigencies and developments of time. This book builds upon the existing body of work related to the practice of iftā’, but takes the discussion beyond the current debates with the intent of unveiling the interaction between Islamic legal methodologies and different environmental contexts. The book specifically addresses the three institutions (Saudi Arabia’s Dār al-Iftā’, Turkey’s Diyanet and America’s FCNA) and their Islamic legal opinions (fatwās) in a comparative framework. This demonstrates the existence of complex and diverse ideas around similar issues within contemporary Islamic legal opinions that is further complicated by the influence of international, social, political, cultural and ideological contexts. The book thus unveils a more complicated range of interactive constituents in the process of the practice of iftā’ and its outputs, fatwās. The work will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Islamic law, Middle Eastern studies, religion and politics.
Author: Lena Salaymeh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-11-14
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1107133025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, Salaymeh proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. The book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.
Author: Mauro Bussani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0521895707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book delves into the 'deeper structures' of the world's legal systems, where law meets culture, politics and socio-economic factors.
Author: Samira Idllalène
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1108488781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time, Sharia' and common law are compared from the perspective of environmental law to delve into their common grounds.
Author: Said Shabbar
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1565649753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early centuries of Islam the response of Muslims to problem-solving the various issues and challenges that faced their rapidly expanding community was to use intelligence and independent reasoning based on the Qur’an and Sunnah to address them. This practice is known as ijtihad. As the centuries wore on however the gates of ijtihad were generally closed in favor of following existing rulings developed by scholars by way of analogy. And as reason and intellect, now held captive to madhhabs (schools of thought) and earlier scholarly opinion stagnated, so did the Muslim world. Ijtihad and Renewal is an analysis of ijtihad and the role it can play for a positive Muslim revival in the modern world, a revival based on society-wide economic and educational reform and development. It makes the case that the grafting of solutions rooted in the past onto the complex and unique realities of our own age, in a one-size-fits-all perspective, has paralysed the vitality of Muslim thought, and confused its sense of direction, and that to revive the Muslim world from its centuries of decline and slumber we need to revive the practice of ijtihad. Focusing attention on thinking through solutions for ourselves based on our own times and context, using the Qur’an and Sunnah, as well as the wisdom and experience of the past distilled from these, as tools in this endeavor whilst not the only solution, is certainly a viable and powerful one.
Author: Hilary Lim
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1848137206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the 'webs of tenure' prevalent in the Muslim societies. They consider the possibility of using Islamic legal and human rights systems for the development of inclusive, pro-poor approaches to land rights. They also focus on Muslim women's rights to property and inheritance systems. Engaging with institutions such as the Islamic endowment (waqf) and principles of Islamic microfinance, they test the workability of 'authentic' Islamic proposals. Located in human rights as well as Islamic debates, this study offers a well researched and constructive appraisal of property and land rights in the Muslim world.
Author: Reza Pankhurst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0199327998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the Caliphate in the ideas and discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Qaeda.
Author: Jonathan A.C. Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 1786076365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad. Exploring the moral and ultimately theological problem of slavery, Jonathan A.C. Brown traces how the Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions have tried to reconcile modern moral certainties with the infallibility of God’s message. He lays out how Islam viewed slavery in theory, and the reality of how it was practiced across Islamic civilization. Finally, Brown carefully examines arguments put forward by Muslims for the abolition of slavery.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9004459235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRethinking Halal reflects an anthropological revolution, that of the scientising, standardising, and normalising of social life through certification which is part of a process of ‘positivisation’ that directly affected Islam and Islamic normativity.
