Preserving Unity and Avoiding Division: A New Approach to the Ethics of Disagreement in Islam
To cultivate a thriving Muslim civilization, it is essential to rediscover ang ethical framework for disagreement. Al-Alwani defines this as a constructive approach to discourse and debate that prioritizes mutual respect, understanding, and tolerance among individuals with differing viewpoints. Read more…

IIIT AL FARUQI MEMORIAL RECEPTION AND LECTURE — 2024 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION (AAR)
IIIT is honored to have Dr. Hatem Bazian deliver this year’s Al Faruqi Memorial Lecture at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) on Sat., Nov. 23, 7-9 pm PST, in San Diego. Dr. Zaid Adhami will moderate. Read more…

Agency, Rationality, and Morality: A Qur’anic View of Man
Agency, Rationality, and Morality: A Qur’anic View of Man Modernity or modernism as a system of thought purporting to be enlightened and universal, has brought with it a crisis of values and a secular perspective that has undermined its own foundations and is provoking a universalized state of existential angst or anomie and moral anarchy. Read more…

Integration of Knowledge (IOK) Winter Program 2025
The Fairfax Institute (TFI) proudly presents the Integration of Knowledge (IOK) Winter Program, a transformative learning experience aimed at the integration of revealed and acquired knowledge. Over two weeks, undergraduate students will apply the Maqasid Al-Quraniyyah Methodology to deeply engage with the Quran and the Sunnah and extrapolate universal principles that guide their comprehensive understanding of the world. Students will hone their critical and analytical skills to examine human intellectual heritage based on a global-centric Quranic worldview. Read more…

ISLA Research Symposium
IIIT is one of the co-sponsors for the Islamic Schools League of America (ISLA) Research Symposium. Please submit your proposals by Oct. 6, 2024. For more information, visit: https://theisla.org/research-symposium

Maqāṣid Al-Sharīʿah: A Civilizational Perspective
The previous decade witnessed a plethora of books on the subject of maqasid (aims of Shariah), stressing that Islam’s commandments have overarching aims, and that the individual texts of Qur’an and hadith can only be adequality understood within the universal principles of Islam. While the classical work on maqasid is immense, that of Shatibi (d. 1388 C.E.) gained the utmost authority as it theorized for five general aims of Shariah, which can take one of three levels of priority. Since then most of the works on the subject of maqasid have been a variation on Shatibi’s approach. Read more…

Collective Ijtihad: Regulating Fatwa in Postnormal Times
THE CONTEMPORARY postnormal world is posing for Muslims ever strange ethical, financial, and medical dilemmas for which modern jurists are expected to provide a suitable theological response. Yet even with an encyclopedic knowledge of Islamic law, the task facing them is daunting. In the real world this level of complexity has led to chaos in fatwa issuance with many scholars voicing concern at the direction to which things are moving and calling for the process to be regulated. Read more…

Call for Blog Posts
The AEMS initiative of IIIT is inviting writers to submit blog posts for the Human Development Matters blog! See the call for details. Read more…

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