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Applying Dworkin’s Legal Philosophy contra Islamist Ideology: Sharī‘ah as a Matter of Interpretation (Ijtihād) and Ethics (ilm al-akhlāq) [PDF]
, 2017 Observers of contemporary politics know that Islamic extremism presents ‘the West’ with a serious challenge of national and international security consequent to terrorist events of recent time.
Norman K. Swazo
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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023 Abstract In the early 20th century, colonised people across empires rejected their status quo with visions and articulations of different emancipatory futures. The more radical and creative of these projects fused socialist thought with national, cultural or religious traditions. Grounded in ideas of equality, redistribution and common ownership, these
Layli Uddin
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Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 343-373, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th ...
Betsy Barre +11 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 170-180, May 2023., 2023 Abstract In the shari‘a seminaries (hawza) of South Beirut, young Shi‘i Muslims articulate a notion of ethics that is realized in and through collective life. Classes on ethics (akhlaq) help them reweave the moral fabric of their neighborhoods by addressing volatile public situations, correcting improper conduct, and emulating virtuous figures.
Jean‐Michel Landry
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Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 670-697, April 2023., 2023 Abstract We examine the role of religiosity on the financing activities in both Islamic and conventional banks in Indonesian provinces by using five different measures of religiosity: number of Islamic schools, hajj application, number of Islamic seminary schools, number of Mosques, and number of certified halal products.
Ibrahim Fatwa Wijaya +2 more
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Kyklos, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 580-606, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The Muslim countries have a lower democracy level on average than the other countries. Yet, this cross‐country comparison is not sufficient to blame Islam for the democracy deficit. This issue is related to the numerous fixed characteristics that differ across the countries and that also have an effect on democracy.
Saeed Khodaverdian
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Anonymous Gamete Donation in Iran: Lineage Revisited
The Muslim World, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 340-352, Summer 2022., 2022 Abstract Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) were legitimized in Iran through the rulings (fatwa) of some of the Shia Islamic jurists, who, in allowing third‐party gamete donation, specified that the resulting child will belong to its biological parent from whom it will take its lineage and inherit.
Soraya Tremayne
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Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2023 With the 2004 reforms on the Moroccan Personal Status Law, the Moroccan Family Code (Mudawwanah) is considered one of the most egalitarian codes in the Muslim World. The reforms was a product of long-lasting public debates for decades in Morocco.
Miyase Yavuz Altıntaş
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Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi and Safavid Shi‘Ism: Akhbarism and Anti-sunni Polemic During the Reigns of Shah ‘Abbas the Great and Shah Safi [PDF]
, 2017 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.The rise of the Akhbari school in the Safavid period has been portrayed as a challenge to both the clerical power of the ʿulamaʾ and ...
Gleave, RM
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The Muslim World, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 367-384, Summer 2022., 2022 Abstract This article deals with assessments by a number of contemporary Sunni fiqh experts on the legal duration of pregnancy. Most of them strive to demonstrate that classical jurisprudence (fiqh) and modern medicine are perfectly compatible, despite the fact that the former contemplates gestational periods far longer than nine months.
Delfina Serrano‐Ruano
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