after the iranian mashrooté revolution, the shiite political thought faced a new era of much attention, contemplation and explanation, when religious scholars embarked on a new research project to address the new situation. the most serious attempt to deal with the theoretical gap and crisis in islamic state was contributed by imam khomaini. in his theory of state, he conjoined the shiite princ...

Mosques, as symbol of Islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of Allah the Almighty. There are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. Aesthetic value in Islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. Contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

This paper investigates the question of whether the phenomenon of Islamic finance who based on Shariah, or Islamic law is truly globalizing and spreading as a universal system of finance and banking. The paper also addresses various aspects of the globalization for Islamic finance, among other, the issue of the rise of Islamic banking in the world, Islamic jurisprudence and finance, global stan...

Throughout history until today, the Islamic world has been witness to various movements which have been formed in response to special demands. The current article aims to address the similarities and differences between the political thought[1] of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and two movements in Indonesia namely the Nahdatul Ulama (NU) and the Muhammadiyah movements using a descriptive-compa...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Niccolo Machiavelli’nin İtalya’nın başında görmek istediği “Prens” tipiyle kendi merceğinden görüp değerlendirdiği “sultan” karakteri arasındaki örtüşmelere dikkat çekmektir. Çalışmada, devlet adamlığı vasfı da bulunan Floransalı yazarın Osmanlı’nın en satvetli ve kudretli zamanını idrak eden bir düşünür olarak bu güce kayıtsız kalamayacağı varsayılmıştır. Öncelikle yazarın...

This is an introduction to the special issue. It provides historical context of Islam and Science that then leads theme issue proceedings a conference at Cambridge Muslim College was held in December 2022.