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Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية, 2018
This article studies the life and thought of  Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought (including numerous nonconformist ...
سهيل لاهير
doaj   +8 more sources

The Methodology of Ijtihād Tat̟bi̟qi̟ KH. Sahal Mahfudh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article aims to examine the methodology of Ijtihād tat̟bīqī KH. Sahal Mahfudh in contextualizing and actualizing classical fiqh texts. The method used is qualitative with the theoretical approach of ijtihād tat̟bîqî by Abû Ishâq Ibrâhîm al-Syâtibi ...
Rohman, Taufiqur
core   +2 more sources

Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Community fashioning

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Islam and democracy

open access: yesKyklos, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Averroes' Decisive Treatise(Fas․l al-maqāl) and Exposition (Kashf) as Dialectical Works [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Perhaps the most famous text from the Islamic world that combines the themes of philosophy and law is the Decisive Treatise (Faṣl al-Maqāl) by Averroes (Ibn Rushd, d. 1198).
Adamson, Peter   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Anonymous Gamete Donation in Iran: Lineage Revisited

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Duration of Pregnancy in Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Legislation: Tradition, Adaptation to Modern Medicine and (In)consequences

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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