One a number of occasions, some acquaintances and students have requested a copy of Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah’s thorough UofC PhD thesis on the concept of inherited practice (‘amal) in the light of Maliki legal theory (usul). Because I was once told that the work had been published, I withheld posting a pdf of theContinueContinue reading “Malik’s Concept of ‘Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah”
Category Archives: Fiqh
New Release: Ascent to Felicity: A Manual on Islamic Creed and Hanafi Jurisprudence
Translation of Maraqi ‘l-Sa’adat A Manual on Islamic Creed and Hanafi Jurisprudence Translation, Notes and Appendices by Faraz A. Khan Written by the eminent 11th century Hanafi scholar, Abu ’l-Ikhlas al-Shurunbulali, Ascent to Felicity is a concise yet comprehensive primer in creed and jurisprudence. It spans all five pillars of Islam, as well as theContinueContinue reading “New Release: Ascent to Felicity: A Manual on Islamic Creed and Hanafi Jurisprudence”
Review: The Essentials of Jumu’a by Shaykh Ibrahim Madani
Reviewed by Bilal Ali Author: Ibrahim Madani Publisher: Madania Publications Pages: 89 Binding: Paperback The Essentials of Jumuʿa, Madania Publications’ first work, is a pleasant and welcome addition to a growing corpus of Islamic literature written in English and aimed at the Western reader. At first glance, the reader will appreciate the excellence of its printContinueContinue reading “Review: The Essentials of Jumu’a by Shaykh Ibrahim Madani”
al-Madhhab al-Hanafi: Marhalatuhu wa Tabaqatuhu, Dawabituhu and Mustalahatuhu, Khasa’isuhu wa Mu’allafatuhu by Shaykh Ahmad Naqib
The following was posted in the comments. We have given it a separate post due to its importance. “The book was a masters thesis at the Imam Muhammad Sa’ud University (Riyadh). Unfortunately the book is no longer in print. The pdf can be downloaded here: volume 1: http://www.4shared.com/document/T2clQUBM/__1.html volume 2: http://www.4shared.com/document/RpnbRmPg/__2.html Also, the following isContinueContinue reading “al-Madhhab al-Hanafi: Marhalatuhu wa Tabaqatuhu, Dawabituhu and Mustalahatuhu, Khasa’isuhu wa Mu’allafatuhu by Shaykh Ahmad Naqib”
al-Kawashif al-Jaliyyah ‘an Mustalahat al-Hanafiyyah by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah al-Mulla
The following treatise is a wonderfully brief but expansive work on the terminology of the Hanafi school of law. It began as an introduction to Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah’s (amongst the scholars of Ahsa’) doctorate on the first volume of ‘Allamah Siraj al-Din Ibn al-Nujaym’s al-Nahr al-Fa’iq and was later expanded upon to include more termsContinueContinue reading “al-Kawashif al-Jaliyyah ‘an Mustalahat al-Hanafiyyah by Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah al-Mulla”
Post-Crisis Reforms: Some Points to Ponder by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
In modern economics, we are used to a purely materialistic and secular approach that does not allow religious concepts to interfere with its theories and concepts, on the premise that economy is outside the domain of religion. It is, however, an interesting irony that every dollar note has the admission: “In God we trust”, butContinueContinue reading “Post-Crisis Reforms: Some Points to Ponder by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani”
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