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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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A Reflection on the Principles for Deriving Islamic Contractual Rules from the Ayat al-Ahkam of the Holy Qur'an [PDF]
∴ Introduction ∴ Islamic jurisprudence is grounded in the principles established by scholars to interpret and extract rulings from primary religious texts, the most authoritative being the Qur'an.
Mohammad Taghi Moradi
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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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REDEFINISI IJTIHAD DAN TAQLID: Upaya Reaktualisasi dan Revitalisasi Perspektif Sosio-Historis
 Abstrak Tema ini diangkat berdasarkan fakta sejarah bahwa pengertian ijtihad telah mengalami pergeseran makna. ijtihad pada periode awal diidentikkan dengan ra’yu, yang berarti pertimbangan dan pendapat seorang ahli.
Abdulah Safe’i
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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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The Existence of Maslahah Mursalah as the Basis of Islamic Law Development in Indonesia [PDF]
Makalah ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis konsepsi maslahah dalam wacana perkembangan hukum Islam. Selanjutnya, makalah ini menguraikan keberadaan masalah dan melihat lebih dalam ke dalam implementasi masalah sebagai dasar untuk pengembangan hukum Islam ...
Rohman, A. N. (Adi)
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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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Reason and Individual Reasoning
The term “ljtihad” itself means to strive hard. But it has been widely used to imply independent reasoning in the development of Islamic jurisprudence. The contemporary understanding, shared widely by formally trained Islamic jurists, defines Ijtihad as ...
M. A. Muqtedar Khan
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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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FAZLUR RAHMAN DAN METODE IJTIHADNYA: Telaah Sekitar Pembaruan Hukum Islam
In his monumental work, Islamic Methodology in History, Fazlur Rahman proposed two causes of failure of using ijtihâd as a method in interpreting Islamic law among classical Islamic law scholars.
Husein Alyafie
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