Prophetic : An Epistemological Offer for Legal Studies

Epistemological Dilemmas in the Assessment of Legal Decision Making

Neil Vidmar and Reid Hastie would surely be at the top of anyone's list of the leading scholars in the jury research community, David Schkade and John Payne are major figures in the broader judgment and decision-making community. All four are careful, sophisticated theorists and researchers. Any dispute involving the four of them is bound to be a productive one for the field. I will argue that ...

The preservation of Digital Heritage: Epistemological and Legal Reflections

Different disciplines and fields of study seem to be heralding the rise of an interdisciplinary scientific and intellectual movement focused on digital heritage, operationally defined as the ensemble of documents and information created in digital formats and subjected to preservation policies developed by individuals, companies and institutions. This article seeks to address some of the method...

An Epistemological Study of the Verse Tathir

The verse Tathir is regarded as one of the central verses in proving the infallibility of the Prophet and his future generation`s properties that have long been debated among the Fariqain commentators. The Sunni commentators, without any reasonable proof and only based on the context and etymology of the word al-bait, the house, have viewed all members of Quraysh in the Prophet's House, and in ...

Prophetic Medicine

It is well known that certain Islamic Jurists and Scholars like Imam Bukari, Imam Muslim, and Imam Tirmizi, did exhaustive research to collect the sayings and traditions of our beloved Prophet PBUH. They then presented their collected works as 'Al Hadith' of the Prophet to the populace. Not only were these authenticated, as to their degree of authenticity, but each of the witnesses, or the chai...

Offer and Acceptance, and Some of the Resulting Legal Relations