From Shari‘a ‘Ayniyya to Shari‘a Hududiyya: Shahrour’s Interpretation on Quranic Legal Verses

Sharia Stock Screening: A Fund Manager's Conundrum

A fund manager has to abide by a set of business and financial parameters before selecting and including a particular stock in an Islamic fund portfolio. There are various Islamic screening methods followed by stock indices and banks, namely Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIMI), FTSE Global Islamic Index Series, S&P 500, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) and Accounting and Auditing ...

Promoting Women’s Rights through Sharia in Northern Nigeria

Multi-agent Security Architecture for a Sharia Compliant E-auction

Electronic auction has introduced new processes in the way auction is conducted which require investigation to ensure compliancy to Sharia (Islamic principles that are based on Qur’an and Sunnah) rules. The use of mobile software agent in electronic auction marketplaces adds ubiquity power to the bidders. In particular it allows agents to quicker respond to local changes in auction marketplaces...

Between Conflict and Compromise: Lessons on Sharia and Pluralism from Nigeria’s Kaduna and Kebbi States

The revitalized implementation of Sharia law and its expansion from the personal to criminal aspects in twelve northern states in the wake of Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999 represents one of the most turbulent cases of intergroup relations in the contemporary history of Nigeria. The development was set in motion by the formal adoption of stringent Sharia codes by Ahmed Sani, the go...

A Study on the Interpretation of the Quranic Verses dealing with Judaism in Almizan

Allameh Tabatabaei is one of the most well-known Shiite interpreters during the contemporary period. Excellent features of his commentary method have turned Almizan to one of those most referred to. His method in interpreting all the Quranic verses is not the same. There are a lot of verses which are allotted to different aspects of Jewish religion. The interpretation of these verses demands sp...