Research
Islamic Human Rights Discourse and Hermeneutics of Continuity
After World War II the United Nations developed new international law constructs in cooperation with the majority of the world’s nations, which were mainly based on a Western hermeneutic of rights. This international humanistic project provided new anthropological...
Recent Ḥanafī Fatāwā in the British Context
The word ‘Muftī’ has been introduced into the English language, and British way of life in general for that matter, due to the indigenous Muslims whose home is Britain after their economic-migrant forefathers established themselves several decades ago. A mufti serves...
Traditionalism as Hermeneutics
The fundamental sources of Islamic Law are the Qur’ān, which are the actual Words revealed by Allah to man via Prophet Muhammad and the Prophetic Traditions the Hadīth. However, the key question that arises is how should God’s Words be interpreted by man, if at all?...
Media
Really fascinating thread by @ArnoldYasinMol on the statement within Islamic scholarly traditions that a non-Muslim state can retain its integrity while it is just, but that a Muslim state cannot if it is oppressive. https://twitter.com/ArnoldYasinMol/status/1218081359849316358
This maxim tradition, here attributed to Ali, is classically attributed to the philosophers and has a long and fascinating tradition within Islamic thought:
الملك يبقى مع الكفر ولا يبقى مع الظلم
“Rulership remains with unbelief, and does not remain with injustice.”
A thread 1/ https://twitter.com/MuslimScholars_/status/1215764527884750849
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Islamic Rulings on Organ Donations
By Mufti Amjad Muhammed @MuftiAMohammed
Video Link:
https://youtu.be/LetKQwtCUvM
