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  1. Publications
  2. Al-Qalam
  3. Volume 1
  4. Vol. 1, No. 1

Al-Qalam Journal of Advanced Islamic Research

Vol. 1, No. 1

The inaugural issue. An editorial foreword and a statement from Ayatollah Jaʿfar Sobhani, five research articles on ghuluww, the authentication of narrations and hermeneutical method, four book reviews, and academic news.

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April 2023

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Contents

Front Matter

  • v–vii

    Statement from Ayatollah Jaʿfar Sobhani

    Ayatollah Jaʿfar Sobhani

Articles

  • 11–33

    Ghuluww in History and Islamic Thought: An Overview of the Case of Imāmī Shīʿism

    Vinay Khetia

  • 35–60

    The Criteria for Extremism (Ghuluww) in the Thought of Shaykh al-Ṣadūq

    Muḥammad Bāqir Malakiyān and Zuhayr Bulandqāmatpūr

  • 61–81

    The Methodology of Jurists in Authenticating Narrations

    Muneer Al-Khabbaz

  • 83–117

    Is Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ Authentic? A Discussion in ʿIlm al-Rijāl

    Mohammed Ali Ismail

  • 119–158

    Application of Hermeneutical Analysis in Islamic Studies

    Ali H. Al-Hakim, Jalal Derakhsheh, Mohammad Sadiq Nosratpanah and Ahmad Al-Kauori

Reviews

  • 161–166

    Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam

    Maleeha Abdullah

  • 167–171

    The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Ḥadīth Literature

    Mehdi Abdullah

  • 173–177

    Current Issues: A Shiʿah Reflection

    Sayyid Shabbar Haidershah

  • 179–181

    In the Minds of Extremists

    Afzal Merali

Academic News

  • 185–186

    Declaration of ICAIR

    ICAIR

  • 187

    Conference Report: “Shia Theology: Beliefs & Methodologies”

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