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An Overview of the Principles of Jurisprudence Vis-A-Vis Legal Maxim
The Principles of Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh) is a well-known science in the field of Shari’ah. Almost all institutions in…
Language and Law: The Significance of Language Competence in Islamic Legal…
Language and law seem to have either distant or no connection at all. However, in reality these two disciplines are closely…
Islamic Theological Arguments – An Epistemological Systematisation
This contribution starts a critical analysis and reconstruction of arguments in classical texts of Islamic theology (of the…
Trajectories in the Development of Islamic Theological Thought: the…
Despite the somewhat pervasive background of the term kalAm in the classical Islamic tradition, it is in the realm of religious…
Islamic Theology, Past and Present. A Comparative Perspective
A wide and still meaningful proposal could be the following: theology is a religion’s rational discourse. Each of the three…
Presence of Islamic philosophy in unpublished writings by the young…
Here published are fragments of a philosophical narrative by Fernando Pessoa, on the subject of Islamic philosophy. These are…
ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT
The Quranic revelation is the light which enables one to see. It is like the sun which casts light lavishly. Philosophical…
Islam and Business
The underdevelopment of many of the Muslim economies along the Silk Road is often ascribed to the negative effects of Islam. Yet…
Business in the Qur’an and Sunnah: Its Importance and Guidelines
One of the Maqasid al-Shari’ah is Hifzh al-Maal (the protection of one's property). Since one's property and assets are very…
John Buchan’s British-Designed: Jihad in Greenmantle
John Buchan (1875–1940) was the director of British Intelligence in the last two years of World War i and a novelist, too. His…
A German “Illusive Love”: Rashīd Ridā’s Perceptions of the First World War…
The inevitable event comes to pass … as enticed by the vanity of the Great States. It was thought that their politicians due to…
The Man Who Would Be Caliph: Sharīfian Propaganda in World War I
The purpose of Sharīfian propaganda during the war was first and foremost to gain Muslim, Arab and British recognition of the…
War, Propaganda and Architecture Cemal Pasha’s Restoration of Islamic…
In the following I am sending a few notes on the German survey of Damascus. The copy I am sending, from which the accompanying…
Architectural Jihad: The “Halbmondlager” Mosque of Wünsdorf as an…
During World War i two camps for Muslim prisoners of war were established in Wünsdorf and Zossen about 50km south of Berlin: the…
Gendering Jihad Ottoman Muslim Women and War during the Early Twentieth…
In November 1914 the fatwas issued by the Shaykh ül Islam Hayri Efendi, in which Muslims were called upon to take up arms against…
Propaganda or Culture War: Jihad, Islam, and Nationalism in Turkish…
During the period of the jealously guarded absolute power of the cup, from the Bab-ı âli (Sublime Porte) Raid of 23 January 1913…
Ottoman Jihad or Jihads The Ottoman Shīʿī Jihad, the Successful One
In his provocative Holy War Made in Germany, the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje maintained that the Ottoman grand…
Domestic Aspects of Ottoman Jihad: The Role of Religious Motifs and…
Discussions on the Ottoman proclamation of the Great Jihad (Cihad-ı Ekber) in World War i usually focus only on its repercussions…