Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies

Current Issue: Volume IX, Number 1, Winter 2016

Publisher: ICAS Press

The Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) is a refereed academic journal published by ICAS Press for the Islamic College in London. The journal conscientiously aims to provide an scholarly platform for critical and informed articles in all fields of Shi‘a studies, including but not limited to, theology, philosophy, mysticism, law, jurisprudence, politics, history, Qur’an and Hadith studies. Such articles will cover the most debate-worthy issues in the aforementioned fields in the hope of ultimately contributing to the resolution of various theoretical, methodological, and practical dilemmas encountered in Shi‘a Islamic studies. Furthermore, JSIS endeavors to cover modern and current issues relevant to Shi‘ism and its overall study.

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

• Philosophy and Shi’ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? [5-16]
  Oliver Leaman
• The Study of Shi’i Islam in Western Academia [17-37]
  Liyakat Takim
• Right to Offense, Right to Shia phobia: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasir Qadhi’s Framings of Offense [39-62]
  Shereen Yousuf
• Struggling with Political Limitation: Shaykh al-Mufid’s Approach to Shi’i Juristic Authority [63-94]
  Ali Ahmad Rasekh

BOOK REVIEWS

• An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 5: From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, 2015 [95-99]
  Muhammad U. Faruque
• Female Personalities in the Quran and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi’i Islam, by Rawand Osman, 2015 [100-105]
  Asma Sayeed
• Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft, ed. by Mehrzad Boroujerdi, 2013 [106-108]
  Antony Black
• The Shi’ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hezbollah’s Islamists, by Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab, 2014 [109-113]
  Jehan Saleh Al-Azzawi
• The Other Saudis: Shiism Dissent and Sectarianism, by Toby Matthiesen, 2015 [114-118]
  Alexander Khaleeli

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