Category Archives: Fiqh

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”

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”

For those who have expressed interested in this book, here is an online pdf version that has redone the typesetting and font of the book to make it more readable. An Introduction to Islamic Finance

The following announcement comes to us from our dear Shaykh Husain Kadodia (may Allah protect him): Assalamu Alaykum, Some good news: Allamah Jassas ar-Razi’s monumental commentary on the mukhtasar of at-Tahawi has just been printed a few days ago, for the first time. Published by Dar al-Bashir al-Islamiyyah of Beirut, it is in 8 thickContinueContinue reading “Announcement: Publication of Sharh Mukhtasar al-Tahawi of Imam Abu Bakr al-Jassas”

For students of Hanafi fiqh, they will find this famous matn (text), including by some amongst the mutun mu’tabarah, very useful. It is from the Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah edition of Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari’s Fath Bab al-‘Inayah, at the end of which the matn is included separately. The text, called Mukhtasar al-Wiqayah and also al-Nuqayah isContinueContinue reading “Mukhtasar al-Wiqayah: Matn Fath Bab al-‘Inayah”