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Ijtihād Maqāṣidī and Legal Adaptation
This study aimed to examine the significance of ijtihād Maqāṣidī in contemporary Islamic jurisprudence, focusing on its role in addressing legal and ethical dilemmas.
Mahroof Athambawa
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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia
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
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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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
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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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
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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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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Abstract This article examines group membership and inter‐group relations in Iraq through the prism of Sunni political participation in the post‐2003 era. There has been much scholarly interest in this process of regime change, which has generally focused on the Sunni insurgency and the Shi‘i shift towards sectarianism.
Elisheva Machlis
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Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective
Abstract This article is a unique investigation of the interaction between sociocultural perceptions of women in Malaysia and reforms implemented in that jurisdiction to promote gender diversity on corporate boards. It adopts a law and social movements perspective to better understand the legal reforms that have emerged, often amid fraught interactions
VIVIEN CHEN +2 more
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