Category: Rome

  In the same day, I visited the Vatican City and gave a lecture at the Rome campus of Loyola University Chicago – an American Jesuit Catholic University. I have to say that I found a stark contrast between the Jesuit values and what I saw at the Vatican! A Jesuit gives a “vow for poverty and chastity” and works for a mission of the “promotion of justice”. I found the Vatican, on the other hand, at the opposite of these values, with a “palace” that has 1400 rooms and 9 full miles of corridors that are full of...

How do we realise Maqasid Al-Shariah in the Shariah? A new booklet published by Tawasul Centre for Research and Dialogue Italy – Series of Islamic Jurisprudence. To be launched in Rome, next week insha Allah. Here is a summary: This booklet explores how maqāṣid al-sharī˒ah (higher purposes and intents of the Islamic law) could contribute to the application of the sharī˒ah itself in today’s Muslim societies and to reaching appropriate juridical rules. The soundness of sharī˒ah’s application and related rules is subject to the degree of universality and flexibility of the Islamic rulings with changing circumstances, discussed from various...