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Our Publications’ databank / collection

‘Our Publications’ collection is a bibliographic database of the Foundation's own publications. These works are the outcome of prominent research projects and events carried out by the three centres of the Foundation, i.e. the ‘Manuscripts Centre’, the ‘Mawsoa Centre’ and the ‘Maqasid Centre’.

This collection was added to the ‘Al-Furqan Digital Library’ to enrich the user research experience. The collection is continuously updated, and currently contains over 200 works in over 400 volumes. These cover both introductory and advanced topics discussed and presented by distinguished scholars in the field of Islamic written heritage.

It also includes many popular and heavily cited publications, as well as award winning works, such as the critical edition of al-Isfizāri’s book which deals with the field of mechanics, known as “the sciences of weights and mechanical devices” (‘Ilmay al-Athqāl wal-Ḥiyal). Other popular items include works by the late famous scholar Annemarie Schimmel, such as The Secrets of Creative Love (1998) and Islam and the Wonders of Creation(2003); and many other highly demanded references, including the unique Encyclopaedia of Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Al-Madīnah Al-Munawwarah.

Purposes of the Islamic Law and Contemporary Issues (Research articles)

By Various Contributors, Edited by Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation
2007
Arabic
Courses
9781905650057
1905650026
Book
Paperback
1
276
0.410 kg

The book is a collection of studies presented at the specialist course on “Purposes of the Islamic Law and Contemporary Issues”, which was organised by the Centre for the Study of the Philosophy of Islamic Law, of Al-Furqān in collaboration with the Centre for Legal and Economic Research and Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alexandria, organised in the year 2006. The book consists of variety of lectures dealing with pertinent contemporary issues in the fields of the foundations of religion (uṣūl), politics, sociology, law and law-making. Also included are studies on: Fundamental Entry to the Knowledge of Maqāṣid; a Maqāṣidi Entry to Ijtihād and Development; Civil Society in Light of the Universal Maqāṣid of Islamic Law; Activating the Maqāṣidi Paradigm in the Political and Social Fields; The Purpose of Justice and its Effects in the Islamic Law; and The Idea of Maqāṣid in Positive Law.