Uṣūl al-Fiqh and Shāfiʿī’s Risāla Revisited

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

Fiqh Al-waqi & its role in the Islamic awakening

چکیده:بیداری اسلامی زمینه ساز تولد دوباره تمدن اسلامی است. از موانع این بیداری، نگاه سنتی فقه اهل تسنن به مسئله مشروعیت حاکم است. از این منظر حاکم یا به اجماع اهل حل و عقد یا استخلاف حاکم قبل و یا به استیلاء و غلبه مشروعیت می‌یابد و تبعیت و فرمانبرداری از او واجب است؛ حتی اگر فاجر و فاسق باشد. فقه الواقع به عنوان پدیده‌ای نوظهور در حوزه علوم اسلامی اهل سنت و جماعت که فقیه را موظف می‌داند تا برا...

Methods and Methodologies in Fiqh and Islamic Economics

This paper intends to examine the methods of reasoning that are employed in Fiqh and critically discuss their adoption in Islamic economics. The paper argues that the methods used in Fiqh are mainly designed to find out whether or not a certain act is permissible or prohibited. Islamic economics, on the other hand, is a social science. Like any other social science its proper unit of analysis i...

Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca: the Risāla fī tadbīr safar al-ḥajj

dust jacket accurately summarizes the main argument of the book: Gibbon was a "stubborn, persevering, single-minded genius, whose determination ... resulted in the one thing essential for sustained progress in heart surgery". Romaine-Davis' chronological account, beginning with Gibbon's birth and early years, culminates in the first successful use of his pump oxygenator on a human patient in 19...

Stylalgia Revisited: Clinical Profile and Management

Introduction: Eagle’s syndrome is a constellation of signs secondary to an elongated styloid process or due to mineralization of the stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligament or the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. The syndrome includes symptoms ranging from stylalgia (i.e. pain in the tonsillar fossa, pharyngeal or hyoid region) to foreign-body sensation in the throat, cervicofacial pain,...