Islamic Writing
Course Overview
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.
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
- 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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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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