Abuja Hosts Second Islamic Book Exhibition - AllAfrica.com

Abuja Hosts Second Islamic Book Exhibition
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"More than 65000 titles of Islamic Books on Quranic exegesis, Hadith collections, Islamic jurisprudence, biography, Economics and socio-political thoughts and children's books will be on display," it said. (NAN)

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Egypt and Islamic Sharia: A Guide for the Perplexed - ABOUT US EDITOR'S NOTE About Us The Cairo Review of

Egypt and Islamic Sharia: A Guide for the Perplexed
ABOUT US EDITOR'S NOTE About Us The Cairo Review of
For that reason, Muslims will sometimes take pains to distinguish between the Islamic sharia as unchanging divine guidance, and fiqh, or jurisprudence, as the fallible human effort to understand the content of that guidance. There is, in that sense, ...

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Nigeria/Islam: Abuja hosts second Islamic book exhibition - International Islamic News Agency


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Nigeria/Islam: Abuja hosts second Islamic book exhibition
International Islamic News Agency
“More than 65000 titles of Islamic Books on Quranic exegesis, hadith collections, Islamic jurisprudence, biography, Economics and socio-political thoughts and children's books will be on display.” The statement said that the main objective of the ...

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Decoding the 'DNA of Patriarchy' in Muslim family laws — Ziba Mir-Hosseini ... - The Malaysian Insider

Decoding the 'DNA of Patriarchy' in Muslim family laws — Ziba Mir-Hosseini ...
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The first distinction is between Shari'ah as revelation, and fiqh — the science of Islamic jurisprudence. This distinction underlies the emergence of various schools of Islamic law and within them a multiplicity of positions and opinions.

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Top two contenders participate in Egypt's first presidential debate - Washington Post


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Top two contenders participate in Egypt's first presidential debate
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CAIRO — The two top-rated Egyptian presidential candidates battled Thursday over the role of Islam and policy toward Israel in the Arab world's most populous country as they took part in the first televised presidential debate in the nation's history.
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Islamist Shakeup in Egyptian Presidential Election - AINA (press release)

Islamist Shakeup in Egyptian Presidential Election
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While being called a “moderate” by many news outlets, Fotouh's radical past and a questionable interpretation of Islam's dedication to equality and tolerance presents a problem for both the West and Egypt's more liberal and secular voters.

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Elections may not send qualified members to Shoura, says Naseef - New York Daily News

Elections may not send qualified members to Shoura, says Naseef
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Our government has adopted the first option and it appoints qualified people specialized in various fields such as economics, political science, education, health and Islamic jurisprudence to the council. They pick the cream of society who represents ...

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Can we give the Tunisian government a chance? - Al-Arabiya


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Can we give the Tunisian government a chance?
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By Sonia Bahi On 26 March, the government of Tunisia, which is led by the Islamic party Ennahda, officially decided against including sharia, Islamic principles of jurisprudence, in the new constitution. This may be a game-changing move at a time when ...

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Pakistan Religious Schools Eye Turkey Model - Onislam.net


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Pakistan Religious Schools Eye Turkey Model
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Originally founded to educate Muslim imams in the 1920s, the imam Hatip syllabus devotes only around 40 percent of study to religious subjects like Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence and rhetoric. The rest is given over to secular topics.

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Ad-Deen and citizenship - The Sun Daily

Ad-Deen and citizenship
The Sun Daily
The ulama, while claiming to apply the Quran and the Sunnah, invariably draw upon the vast corpus of Islamic jurisprudence as it had evolved through the centuries to lay down the rules and laws that define the Islamic way of life.

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