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The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan

A Fiqhī Discourse

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan

A Fiqhī Discourse

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

This book shatters the myth that naked-eye sighting of the new moon and completing thirty days in the case of weather-related or other obscurities are the only two valid methods of determining the month of Ramadan. The author explains that certainty, not actual sighting, is the real objective of the Shariah and that the Qur'an does not mandate physical sighting. A careful analysis shows that those hadiths that seemingly require sighting actually require certainty. The assertion that all Muslim scholars prohibit the use of astronomical calculations, both in affirming or negating the month of Ramadan, is not correct. As calculation is now more accurate than naked-eye sighting, due to certain astronomical and scientific advancements, the use of calculation is the closest to the real objective of the Shari'ah and to the spirit of the hadiths.

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1565643348

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Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West

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During the formative classical period of Islamic jurisprudence, wellknown scholars possessed not only the intellectual skills required for analytic reasoning, but also a broad general knowledge of the fi elds relevant to the cultural contexts in which they issued their edicts. A viable fatwa requires knowledge of the Shari‘ah as well as local customs, cultural realities, individual and communal implications, and related matters. The original juristic tradition was formulated and fi xed during the fi rst three Islamic centuries, a time of widespread sociopolitical turmoil. Of course, the jurists’ legal outlooks and thinking processes could not have escaped this reality. While Muslims of the prophetic and rāshidūn periods adhered closely to the authentic texts due to their sincerity, piety, prophetic training, and proximity to the revelation, the changing environment in which their descendants functioned gradually started to impact how the authentic texts were understood, interpreted, paraphrased, and implemented. Both the Muslim and the non-Muslim worlds have drastically changed since that time. The new geopolitical and scientifi c realities of our rapidly changing world demand a fresh look at some aspects of the established juristic tradition. The way forward involves a systematic fresh look at and reevaluation of the old fatwas, as well as the issuance of new ones with a maqāsidī outlook that can deal successfully with today’s ever-changing global realities. In this edited volume, papers on fatwa and iftā’ point to an approach that is both rooted in the Islamic legacy and committed to meeting the challenges of the modern world.

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1565644832

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Books-in-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God

The Concept of God in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unrepresentable

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Books-in-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God

The Concept of God in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unrepresentable

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

This monumental study examines issues of anthropomorphism in the three Abrahamic Faiths, as viewed through the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur’an. Throughout history Christianity and Judaism have tried to make sense of God. While juxtaposing the Islamic position against this, the author addresses the Judeo-Christian worldview and how each has chosen to framework its encounter with God, to what extent this has been the result of actual scripture and to what extent the product of theological debate, or church decrees of later centuries and absorption of Hellenistic philosophy. Shah also examines Islam’s heavily anti-anthropomorphic stance and Islamic theological discourse on Tawhid as well as the Ninety-Nine Names of God and what these have meant in relation to Muslim understanding of God and His attributes. Describing how these became the touchstone of Muslim discourse with Judaism and Christianity he critiques theological statements and perspectives that came to dilute if not counter strict monotheism. As secularism debates whether God is dead, the issue of anthropomorphism has become of immense importance. The quest for God, especially in this day and age, is partly one of intellectual longing. To Shah, anthropomorphic concepts and corporeal depictions of the Divine are perhaps among the leading factors of modern atheism. As such he ultimately draws the conclusion that the postmodern longing for God will not be quenched by pre-modern anthropomorphic and corporeal concepts of the Divine which have simply brought God down to this cosmos, with a precise historical function and a specified location, reducing the intellectual and spiritual force of what God is and represents, causing the soul to detract from a sense of the sacred and thereby belief in Him.

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

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1565645839

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Islam and The English Enlightenment

The Untold Story

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Islam and The English Enlightenment

The Untold Story

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

“Never before to my knowledge has the cross-fertilisation of Western and Islamic ideas been so encyclopedically documented as it is here. In reading Islam and the English Enlightenment, you will never see the relationship between Islam and the West in the same way again.” ROBERT F. SHEDI NGER Professor of Religion, Luther College “Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah’s Islam and the English Enlightenment is one of the most profoundly enlightening books I have read in years. Dr. Shah compellingly demonstrates that the thinkers of English Enlightenment were undeniably indebted to Islamic sciences and thought, and that the foundational principles of rationalist thought, scientific inquiry and religious toleration were deeply anchored in the Islamic tradition.” KHALED ABOU EL FADL Omar & Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law “This is a book that anyone interested in stepping outside a Eurocentric view of the rise of the West and of the modern age must read.” MICHAEL A. GILLESPIE Professor of Political Science & Philosophy, Duke University “Dr. Shah convincingly demonstrates the central role that Islam played in shaping the values and ideas of the Enlightenment reformers such as John Locke and Isaac Newton who had helped to produce the modern world.” GERALD MACLEAN Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter

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Claritas Books

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1800119844

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Albanian : Ifta’ and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Albanian : Ifta’ and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West

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During the formative classical period of Islamic jurisprudence, well-known scholars possessed not only the intellectual skills required for analytic reasoning, but also a broad general knowledge of the fields relevant to the cultural contexts in which they issued their edicts. A viable fatwa requires knowledge of the Shari‘ah as well as local customs, cultural realities, individual and communal implications, and related matters. The original juristic tradition was formulated and fixed during the first three Islamic centuries, a time of widespread sociopolitical turmoil. Of course, the jurists’ legal outlooks and thinking processes could not have escaped this reality. While Muslims of the prophetic and râshidûn periods adhered closely to the authentic texts due to their sincerity, piety, prophetic training, and proximity to the revelation, the changing environment in which their descendants functioned gradually started to impact how the authentic texts were understood, interpreted, paraphrased, and implemented. Both the Muslim and the non-Muslim worlds have drastically changed since that time. The new geopolitical and scientific realities of our rapidly changing world demand a fresh look at some aspects of the established juristic tradition. The way forward involves a systematic fresh look at and reevaluation of the old fatwas, as well as the issuance of new ones with a maqâsidî outlook that can deal successfully with today’s ever-changing global realities. In this edited volume, papers on fatwa and iftâ’ point to an approach that is both rooted in the Islamic legacy and committed to meeting the challenges of the modern world.

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Ifta' and Fatwa in the Muslim World and the West

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The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan

A Fiqhī Discourse

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Russian: Books-In-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God: The Concept of God in Judaic, ‎Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unrepresentable ‎

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Russian: Books-In-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God: The Concept of God in Judaic, ‎Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unrepresentable ‎

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

This monumental study examines issues of anthropomorphism in the three Abrahamic Faiths, as ‎viewed through the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur’an. Throughout ‎history Christianity and Judaism have tried to make sense of God. While juxtaposing the Islamic ‎position against this, the author addresses the Judeo-Christian worldview and how each has chosen ‎to framework its encounter with God, to what extent this has been the result of actual scripture and ‎to what extent the product of theological debate, or church decrees of later centuries and absorption ‎of Hellenistic philosophy. Shah also examines Islam’s heavily anti-anthropomorphic stance and ‎Islamic theological discourse on Tawhid as well as the Ninety-Nine Names of God and what these ‎have meant in relation to Muslim understanding of God and His attributes. Describing how these ‎became the touchstone of Muslim discourse with Judaism and Christianity he critiques theological ‎statements and perspectives that came to dilute if not counter strict monotheism. As secularism ‎debates whether God is dead, the issue of anthropomorphism has become of immense importance. ‎The quest for God, especially in this day and age, is partly one of intellectual longing. To Shah, ‎anthropomorphic concepts and corporeal depictions of the Divine are perhaps among the leading ‎factors of modern atheism. As such he ultimately draws the conclusion that the postmodern longing ‎for God will not be quenched by pre-modern anthropomorphic and corporeal concepts of the ‎Divine which have simply brought God down to this cosmos, with a precise historical function and ‎a specified location, reducing the intellectual and spiritual force of what God is and represents, ‎causing the soul to detract from a sense of the sacred and thereby belief in Him.‎

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Albanian: Books-In-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God

The Concept of God in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unpresentable

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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Albanian: Books-In-Brief: Anthropomorphic Depictions of God

The Concept of God in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Traditions: Representing the Unpresentable

By: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

This monumental study examines issues of anthropomorphism in the three Abrahamic Faiths, as viewed through the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an. Throughout history Christianity and Judaism have tried to make sense of God. While juxtaposing the Islamic position against this, the author addresses the Judeo-Christian worldview and how each has chosen to framework its encounter with God, to what extent this has been the result of actual scripture and to what extent the product of theological debate, or church decrees of later centuries and absorption of Hellenistic philosophy. Shah also examines Islam’s heavily anti-anthropomorphic stance and Islamic theological discourse on Tawhid as well as the Ninety-Nine Names of God and what these have meant in relation to Muslim understanding of God and His attributes. Describing how these became the touchstone of Muslim discourse with Judaism and Christianity he critiques theological statements and perspectives that came to dilute if not counter strict monotheism. As secularism debates whether God is dead, the issue of anthropomorphism has become of immense importance. The quest for God, especially in this day and age, is partly one of intellectual longing. To Shah, anthropomorphic concepts and corporeal depictions of the Divine are perhaps among the leading factors of modern atheism. As such he ultimately draws the conclusion that the postmodern longing for God will not be quenched by pre-modern anthropomorphic and corporeal concepts of the Divine which have simply brought God down to this cosmos, with a precise historical function and a specified location, reducing the intellectual and spiritual force of what God is and represents, causing the soul to detract from a sense of the sacred and thereby belief in Him.

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