Category Archives: Fiqh

Assalamu ‘alaykum, Shaykh Ehzaz Ajmeri was kind enough to share with us an addendum to the book posted previously on the significance of the 15th of Sha’ban. You can download the addendum, which is in urdu, here.

Given that the fifteenth of Sha’ban is upon us, the usual questions about the signigicance of the night of the 15th and fasting on its day have begun to come up. I thought it would be useful to read a researched answer by one of today’s foremost authorities in the science of Hadith, Shaykh al-HadithContinueContinue reading “Shabe Barat: The Fifteenth of Shabaan in the Light of the Qur’an and Hadeeth by Shaykh Fazlur Rahman ‘Azmi”

Dar al-Gharb al-Islami recently published a little-known book on Hanafi usul al-fiqh by an equally unknown author, Imam Mahmud ibn Zayd al-Lamishi al-Hanafi al-Maturidi, a Transoxianan scholar from the late fifth and early sixth Islamic centuries. Imam Lamishi, despite the value of his books which is apparent to anyone who reads them, is not knownContinueContinue reading “Kitab Fi Usul al-Fiqh by Imam Abu ‘l-Thana’ Mahmud ibn Zayd al-Lamishi”

Since the topic of book reviews and Wael Hallaq was being discussed recently, I thought it would be interesting to post a review of Dr. Hallaq on a book published by Colin Imber. Colin Imber, Ebu ‘s-su’ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 288. $49.50 (ISBN 0-8047-2927-1). In theContinueContinue reading “Ebu’s-su’ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition by Colin Imber: Book Review by Wael Hallaq”

The author of the book Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law, Dr. Wael Hallaq, responded to Dr. Nadwi’s critical review of his book (that was posted earlier on this site). We have attached the rejoinder that JIS made an exception to publish, in the words of Ml. Nadwi, bowing down to the pressure from certainContinueContinue reading “Wael Hallaq’s Rejoinder to Shaykh Nadwi’s Review of Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law”