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Islamic Writing

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Islamic Writings is the student journal of The Islamic College. The aim of the journal is to promote high standards of scholarship among students of the College. Established in 2009, Islamic Writings features essays and writings on a diversity of subjects pertaining to Islamic Studies, such as Qur’an and hadith studies, politics, theology, law, and mysticism. Undergraduate and graduate students are both eligible for their writings to be published in the journal. 

2023 Volume 10

Islamic Writings: Volume 10 | Issue 1 | 2023

The Student Journal of The Islamic College

  • Retrieving the role of optics and alchemy in Islamic intellectual culture

Implications of an epistemological breakthrough for the history of science

Author : Reem Elghonimi

  • Muslims use the Qur’anic narrative of the connection between human beings and the natural world

The natural world to guide themselves and others in overcoming the environmental crisis 

Author : Mehreen Sadiqi

  • Female Muslim Entrepreneurs in Great Britain

Gender and Ethnicity             

Author : Umm Saad

  • The Muslim ‘Influencer’

Social Media and the Formations of Narratives         

Author : Noor Mansour

  • What are the potential consequences if they are defective?   

Ijārah ʿalā al-ashkhāṣ is applicable to therapeutic services supplied by clinicians and traditional healers  

Author : John Mayberry

2020, Volume 9

 

  • Are UK Fostering and Adoption Laws and Policies Compatible with Islamic Principles?

Author : Catherine Al Jawdah

  • Milestones

How Coherent was Sayyid Quṭb’s Methodology for Revival?

Author : Fezal Khan Boodhoo 

  • A Critical Review of Mohammad Iqbal’s Philosophy

Author : Zaheer Sheikh

  • A Comparative Analysis of Insān al-Kāmil (The Perfect Man) and the Übermensch (Superman)

Author : Sakina Rizvi

  • Medical Uses of Honey in the Qur’an, Prophetic Sunnah, and Classical Islamic Medical Texts in Light of Modern Evidence-Based Medicine

Author : Husain Raza Mohammad

  • Muḍārabah

Its History and Critical Views

Author : Abdullah Bin Azam

  • An Exposé of Key Issues, Ongoing Judicial Ijtihad and Principles of Jurisprudence in Islamic Family Law

Author : Adzlan Hassan

  • Understanding Inheritance and Gender Equality through a Qur’anic Exegesis Approach

Author : Fatemeh N. Ghamsari

2017, Volume 8

Articles

  • The Influence of ‘Foreign’ Sources on Islamic Knowledge

The Case of Greek Philosophy

Author: Sharaiz Chaudhry

  • Islam and Slavery

A Personal Quest for Understanding and Resolution

Author : Zain-Al-Husain Moloobhoy 

  • A Clash of Modernity

Evaluating Amina Wadud’s Argument for Gender Inclusion for Friday Prayers

Author : Tim Orr

A Brief Account of the Influences of the Qādiriyyah, Shādhiliyyah, and ʿAlawiyyah Sufi Ṭarīqahs in East Africa
Yousuff Aden

  • Hajj Dilemma

Stampedes Causes and Solutions

Author : Manahill Osman

  • To What Extent Does Shūrā Relate to Democracy?

Author : Khadijeh Ahmadi-Moghaddam

  • The Development and Journey of the Person in Naqshabandī Sufism and Twelver Imāmi ʿIrfāni Shi‘ism

Author: Cemal Djemal

2016, Volume 7

Articles

  • Transcending Idiosyncrasy

An Investigation into the Appropriation of Islam by Muslims

Author : Yasmin Ahmed

  • A Comparative Study of the Political Philosophies of Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī and Rūḥollāh Khomeini

Author : Muhammad James

  • An Ideological War against Modernity

Is Sayyid Quṭb the Radical Ideologue of Daesh?

Author : Isha Haider Hasnain

  • Iraqi Shiʿa Political Parties: Their Founders and Political Thought

Author : Ali Al-Hilli

  • Human Knowledge in Relation to God in the Narratives of Dhū al-Qarnayn, al-Khiḍr, and the Seven Sleepers

Author : Alishba Khaliq

  • The Manifestation of Euro-Islam

Outlandish vs. Inlandish with Reference to the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Author : Seddigheh Moniri

  • Review of Islamic Theology

Traditionalism and Rationalism by Binyamin Abrahamov

Author : Mohamed hassan Merali 

2015, Volume 6

Articles

  • Of Jinn and Men 

Exploring the Notion of Jinn in the Qurʾan and Shiʿi Tradition

Author : Mohammad Hadi Ailan

  • The Cliché of Civilizations: Islam is Not a Monolith

Author: Mark A. Caudill

  • ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as the First Expositor of the Doctrine of Determinism and Free Will

Author : Munir Abbas Chagpar

  • The Gospel of Barnabas

A  Muslim Forgery?

Author : Amina Inloes

  • Adoption for Muslims Living in Britain

Author : Zahra Kamal

  • Ataturk’s Disestablishment of the Sufi Ṭarīqahs

A Means to Absolute Power

Author : Dione Rupert

  • The Formation of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation

Author : Afzal Sumar

2014, Volume 5

Articles

  • Epistemic Considerations in Islam

Interrelation between Theology, Philosophy, and Mysticism

Author: Farhan A. Zaidi

  • Ethicism as Conceived in the Political Philosophies of Imam ‘Ali and Machiavelli

Modern-Day Relevance

Author : Naila Tiwana

  • The Fast of ‘Āshūrā’

Author : Khalil Jaffer

  • Yaqin

Certainty in Islam 

Author : Zahra Hosseini Milani

  • Orthodox Sunnī Sufism’s probable role in countering the Wahhābī-influenced Salafī threat to ‘diversity in unity’ in Islam

Author : Chun Mun ENG

  • Islamic Law in Context: Ijtihad as the Parameter of Reconstruction?

Author : Reeyaz Rajab

  • Socio-Political Impact of the Liberation Theology of ‘Ali Shari‘ati

Author : Syed Mehdi Ashraf

  • A Critical Approach to the Problem of Takfir (Excommunication) in Salafism and its Intellectual Underpinnings

Author : Mohammed S. El-Saeiti

  • Feminism

An Islamic Perspective

Author : Islam Uddin

  • Are UK Fostering and Adoption Laws and Policies Compatible with Islamic Principles?
2013, Volume 4

Articles

  • Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Light of Islamic Law

Author : Cathy Harrison

  • Performance and Potential of Islamic Finance

A Contextual Study in the UK

Author : Mareem Hussain

  • To Believe or not to Believe

Freedom of Religion, non-Coercion and Apostasy in Islamic Law 

Author : Michael Arnold

  • The Attack on the House of Fatima b. Muhammad

Historiographically analysing an oft-deployed polemical narrative

Author : Sean Seymour

  • The Revivalism of Shaikh Uthmān dan Fodio (1754-1804) in Hausaland (Northern Nigeria)

Author : Zubair Yousif

  • Kantian Sublimity and its Relation to Religion

Author : Somayeh Tohidi

  • An Islamic Response to Wittgenstein’s Theory of Language Games

Author : Fatema Walji

2012, Volume 3

Articles

  • Conquest and the Conquered. Rights in the Middle Ages

A Comparative Study of the Ayyubid Conquest of Jerusalem and the Castilian Conquest of Granada

Author : Brahim Rouabah

  • The Sultan Who Broke Europe

Author: Suhail Shaikh

  • The Golden Chain of Bukhari 

Author : Sahar Bahmanpour

  • A Solely Isnad-Based Analysis of the Hadith

‘Women are Deficient in Intellect and Religion’

Author : Sayed Mohsen Mear Al-Mousawi

  • Challenging Views on Female Religious Leaders

Islam and Christianity

Author : Adilla Ibrahim Muhammad

  • The Permissibility of Female

Led Congregational Prayers within Islam

Author : Shaahid Hasan Jaffer

  • Theft

Its Definition and Punishment under Islamic Law

Author : Huda Abdul Wahab Fartousi

  • The Differences between the Sunni and Shiʿa

Definitions of Sunnah

Author : Zahra Kamal

  • The Introduction of Qiyas as a Means of Ijtihad

Author : Saida Nasser

  • The Problem of Evil in Christianity and Islam

Author : Daria Prokoshina

  • A Comparison between the Beliefs of Shinto

Islam with Particular Regard to the Concept of an Afterlife

Author : Vivien Sadeghi

  • The Relationship between Ethics and Politics in Farabi’s Political Philosophy

Author : Navid Nayeri

2011, Volume 2

Articles

  • A Match Made in Heaven?

Exploring the Potential Synergy Between Islam and Critical Rationalism

Author : Abd al-Rauf Adekunle Shokoya

  • Sins of the Father

Are illegitimate children considered Juristically Just (ʿAdil) in Twelver Shiʿism?

Author : Abbas Bahmanpour

  • Some Notes About the ʿUthmanic Codex

Author : Abbas Jaffer

  • Legitimacy of the Theory of the Authority of the Jurist in Traditional Shiʿa Literature

Author : Abbas Di Palma

  • The Creationism of the Qurʾan

Author : Mareem Hussain

  • The Concept of the Unity Of Being

Ibn ʿArabi & Ahmad Sirhindi

Author : Hikmat Allahverdiyev

  • Freedom, Imposition or Ban of the Veil?

Between Islam and Modernity

Author : Ali Haider Abidi

  • The Phenomenon of Shathiyyat and the Factors That Gave Rise to Those of Hallaj

Author : Alihusain Datoo

  • Salvation in Islamic Theology

Author : Johanna Marie Buisson

  • The Kalami Helix

Towards an Epistemological Theory of Kalam

Auhtor : Raeid Jewad

  • An Analytic Comparison on the Story of ʿAli and the Enemy As Narrated by Rumi and Ghazali

Author : Azadeh Jalali 

2010, Volume 1

Articles

  • A Sectarian Milieu

The Qurʾan as a Source of Historical Information

Author : Alexander Hainy

  • The Collapse of the Umayyad Dynasty

Author : Zoheir Esmail

  • The Effect of ‘9/11’ on Islam in America
    Husayn El-Mekki

Author : Abdullah-Aziz

  • The Hermeneutical Circle and Situational Logic in the Assessment and Interpretation of Islamic Sources

Author : Mohammad Hadi Ailan

  • Love of God as the Uniting Factor for Muslims

Author : Ali Haider Abidi 

  • The Wahhabi Threat

A Historical Overview on Wahhabism’s Rise within the Emerging Kingdom and the Effects of its Doctrines on Shiʿa Citizenry

Author : Omar Saloum

  • Hijab

Liberation in Jahiliyyah

Author : Aliya Gokal

  • An Ontological, Existential, and Epistemological Investigation of the Human Condition

Humanism Compared with Islam

Author : Syed Omar Ameer Khan

  • Comparing the Tafsir of the Throne Verse in Tafsir ibn Kathir and Tafsir al-Mizan 91

Author : Hussain Al-Musaad

  • A Comparison of Two Exegeses

Majmaʿ al-Bayan and Al-Kashshaf

Author : Aaron Varricchio

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