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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

open access: yesThe Muslim World, Volume 115, Issue 4, Page 295-319, Autumn 2025.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how Khawaja Sira, Hijra, and other gender‐diverse communities in Pakistan navigate law, criminalization, and punishment. While Socio‐Legal Studies and Criminology provides the main framework, it also draws from history, anthropology, public health, and gender studies to ...
Sabeen Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

From the Fiqh of Minority to Cosmopolitan Fiqh An Analysis

open access: yesPolicy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies, 2014
The convergence of Muslims in Europe and America from different Muslim majority societies conjures the idea of a multicultural milieu. The West has indeed become a crossroad of civilizations and cultures and such intersection is explicable for a cosmopolitan fiqh reflective of all the Muslims.
openaire   +2 more sources

How Can Religion Shape Pro‐Environmental Behavior in a Materialistic World? Contrasting Idealism With Realism Religious Epics

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taha Abdurrahman's Effort to Base Fiqh on Ethic: A Proposal for Transition from I'timārī Fiqh to I'timānī Fiqh

open access: yes, 2022
Taha Abdurrahman çağdaş meydan okumalara ilişkin incelemelerinde, bu meydan okumalara birinci derecede kaynaklık ettiğini düşündüğü Batılı paradigmayı eleştirmekle kalmamış, yanı sıra İslami telakkinin çağdaş meydan okumaların üstesinden gelmeyi zorlaştıran yönleri üzerine de eleştirel diyebileceğimiz değerlendirmeler serdetmiştir.
openaire   +2 more sources

Identity work responses to workplace stigmatization: Power positions, authenticity, religious coping and religious accommodation for skilled practising Muslim professionals

open access: yesJournal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Volume 98, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract Despite the challenges Muslims face because of their stigmatized religious identity, little is known about how they navigate that identity in the workplace. Adopting an interpretivist perspective of identity work, this study investigates this issue by building on two‐round in‐depth interviews (35 in round‐one and 21 in round‐two) with skilled ...
Rami Al‐Sharif
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Perspectives Regarding the Ethical Issues Associated With Clinical Xenotransplantation

open access: yesXenotransplantation, Volume 32, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT Background As xenotransplantation advances toward clinical trials, viewpoints from various segments of society are continually needed to engage the public and to inform the prospective clinical trials. As the majority of the world's population identifies with a religious tradition, religious perspectives regarding the ethical issues associated
Daniel J. Hurst   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Double vision’ in the interlegal: the situated pluri‐legal consciousness of British Muslim women

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 51, Issue S1, Page S136-S152, December 2024.
Abstract Legal pluralism scholarship has argued that co‐existing legal orders interact. Individuals draw on exogenous norms to strategically resist social and legal constraints. Integrating the concepts of ‘situated legal consciousness’ and ‘interlegality’, I explore how identities within intersecting legal orders influence legal consciousness. To this
SIMRAN KALRA
wiley   +1 more source

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