Encyclopaedia of Islamic Rulings on BioethicsAbout the Research Islamic law is at a crossroad. The aim of this research is to study and collect scholastic opinions regarding contemporary jurisprudential issue. There is a great need for this project. Contemporary jurisprudential issues affect the global Muslim populous and in particular occidental Muslims.  The scope and significance [...]

Women’s Contractual Capacity: Islamic Legal PerspectiveAbout the Research This book will look at the status of women in Islam in terms of their ability to engage in contractual agreements freely and independently. It will investigate how much pre-Islamic Arab culture has influenced Islamic law and women’s right to engage in contracts.   It is claimed [...]

Explaining Evil and Suffering: Theodicy Models in Islamic ThoughtAbout the Research One of the most intractable theological issues within the Abrahamic faiths is the Problem of Evil. Within the Islamic tradition, Muslim scholars drawing guidance from the Qur'an and Hadith – Islam’s primary sources of revelation - in addition to assumptions about Divine motives, fairness [...]

Shariah Regulation in Banking and Finance: How Can We Methodologically Deconstruct Them?About the Research Islamic Finance is a growing industry, estimated at over US$1.7 trillion and with a healthy growth rate annual growth of 17.6%. All the Islamic finance institutions use shariah regulations for governance of these financial institutions. The shariah regulations are religiously motivated regulations, and their implementation [...]

Tamlīk-proper to Quasi-tamlīk: Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) of Zakat Money, Empowering the Poor and Contemporary Modes of Distributing Zakat Money with Special Reference to British Muslim CharitiesAbout the Research The principle aim of this paper is to look at the concept of tamlīk (or possession of zakat-money by the recipient) from two dimensions: tamlīk by [...]

Khalifah, the Environment and Recycling Copies of the Holy Qur’an: A Symbiotic Sematic ConsiderationAbout the Research One of the distinctive features of the Arabic language is its rich polysemy. These polysemic phenomena together with the rich inimitable consonance produced through sublime syntatico-sementico inter and intra fertilisation of words and its meaning creates an environment for [...]