Index Islamicus, begun in 1906, is a database of bibliographic information of publications in all areas of studies connected with the Islamic world. Since that time, interest in Islamic art and architecture has surged from specialists to many scholars, students, and general interest worldwide. Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 7DownloadRead More

Islamic law presents a contrast to the Western systems of civil and common law not only in its methods of legal reasoning, but in the priority of its sources as well. There is no legislation in the traditional concept of its legal system, and judicial decisions play little or no role in the determination of...Read More