The rarity of consanguineous marriage in much of the industrialized world, and the current restriction or outright prohibition of first-cousin unions in a majority of US states and in East Asian countries such as China, North and South Korea and the Philippines, has led many commentators to overlook the fact that the Out-of-Africa migration some 60,000–70,000 years ago had been undertaken by qu...

Islam as a universal religion has a special approach for establishment of international relations. Different dimensions of this approach can be found in the accounts of the Prophet’s (s) interactions with other nations. Theoretical foundations of Islamic international relations, inspired by Qur’anic principles, have consolidated the mechanism of these relations in practice. Meantime, a survey o...

This article focuses on contemporary Islamic attitudes towards the question of compensation to a non-relative live organ donor. This article presents the history of the debate on organ transplantation in Islam since the 1950s and the key ethical questions. It continues by presenting the opinions of the mainstream ulema such as Tantawi and Qaradawi. The article ends with a conclusion that there ...

islam as a universal religion has a special approach for establishment of international relations. different dimensions of this approach can be found in the accounts of the prophet’s (s) interactions with other nations. theoretical foundations of islamic international relations, inspired by qur’anic principles, have consolidated the mechanism of these relations in practice. meantime, a survey o...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, and one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious, and Comparative Studies in the world today. In this interview by Adeel Khan, Managing Editor of the journal Religions-Adyān, and Patrick Laude, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Nasr el...

The call of giving all subscribers a greater opportunity in the Islamic banking systems is well documented in the literature of the first decade of this millennium. Many banks and financial institutions across the world have attempted to implement programs aiming at increasing the customer’s involvement in terms of investment and financing with varying degrees of success. The study describes th...

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...