Can a Muslim live a pious or just life in a society where Muslims are a minority? Some Muslims wonder. Some non-Muslims (especially some agenda-driven pundits and Islamophobes) also raise …
Fiqh of Muslim Minorities: Necessity or Innovation?
Q: There is a scholarly difference nowadays as to fiqh al-aqalliyyat or the fiqh of Muslim minorities. Some scholars regard it as an innovation that manipulates Allah’s religion, and some …
Fiqh of Minorities: What Does It Deal With?
Fiqh (jurisprudential understanding) of Minorities is a contemporary terminology for issues that were discussed and presented by earlier fiqh scholars in a widely scattered form. The breadth of this term …
Fiqh of the Muslim Minorities
“Fiqh of the minorities” (Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat) is a specific discipline that takes into account the relationship between the religious ruling and the conditions of the community, including the location where …
Sh. Sayyid Sabiq: A Living Encyclopedia of Fiqh
The Scholar Shaykh Sayyid Sabiq was a great Egyptian Muslim scholar who left a profound legacy to the world in the field of fiqh studies, having written one of the …