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Feb 13
Q and A on Women in the Islamic Law, Bosnia
Jasser Auda – Q and A on Women in the Islamic Law, Nahla Women Association, Bosnia, May 2012 – Part 1.
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Feb 13
Introduction to Shariah
Introduction to Shariah. Qurtuba Institute, ADAMS Center, Virginia. Ramadan 1433, August 2012
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Feb 13
Against Islamophobia and Islamic Extremism
The Role of Universal Principles There is mutual reinforcement and great many interesting similarities between views expressed by Islamophobes and Islamic extremists. The following passages propose that it is necessary for sound scholarship to defy, both, Islamophobes and Islamic extremists via a balanced position that is based on widely-accepted universal
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Feb 13
Islam & Development
With a 2004 estimate of 1.48 billion followers, Islam is the religion of roughly 23 percent of the world’s population (based on CIA Fact Sheet 2004). Most Muslims live in the region that extends from North Africa to South East Asia, but Muslim minorities across Europe and the Americas are…
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Feb 13
A Critique of Abrogation of Rulings
This article critiques the concept of abrogation of rulings (Naskh al-Ahkaam) as applied in the literature of Islamic jurisprudence and exegesis. As such, it surveys the subject of abrogation (Naskh) in the Quran, Hadith and Islamic literature. The article illustrates that the concept of abrogation of rulings was introduced after the Prophetic…
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Feb 13
The Prophetic Deliberation and its Implications on The Absolute
Deliberation (Ijtihad) is a necessary practice for Scriptural interpretation and juridical analogy. However, there is a difference of opinion among jurists as to whether deliberation was practiced by the Prophet, himself. The majority of jurists approved the idea of Prophetic deliberation but had several different opinions about its scope and…
