Food is necessary for every living creature to sustain and enjoy his life. This is why food security becomes a matter of concern in human society and the eradication of hunger a collective war of the comity of nations. The Qur’an being the statute of Islam has declared a very stringent war against hunger in...Read More

This article argues that similar to the centrality of the concept of sovereignty in Western social, legal, and political paradigms, at the core of Sunni legal and political history there is a paradigmatic authority of Ulu Al Amr (those in authority or the legal scholars who possess a legal mastery over the sources that constitute...Read More

The word Hisbah is derived from the root „hasaba‟ which means “arithmetical problem”, “sum” or “reward”. The verb “hasaba”, Yahsubu means to “compute”, or “to measure”. The verbal form “Ihtasaba” means “to take into consideration”, to anticrpate a reward in the hereafter by adding a pious deed to one’s account with Allah.3 From here, the...Read More

Shari‘ah and Haqīqah are two terms of Tasawwuf- Islamic Mysticism which had generated a lot of controversies among Islamic scholars. Previous works have focused on the connotations of Shari‘ah and Haqīqah individually and with some other terms that are connected to the two. However, those works were confronted with the challenge of creating a unique...Read More