Pada masa awal Islam, banyak kabilah di Semenanjung Arabia yang dengan lantang menyatakan masuk Islam. Akan tetapi, hal itu sebenarnya lebih disebabkan oleh despotiknya Negara Madinah yang dikuasai Klan Quraisy, Ketimbang karena faktor Islam sebagai “Agama” yang dibawa oleh Muhammad.
This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of iftā’ to better understand the process of issuing fatwās in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other. The practice of iftā’ is one of the most important mechanisms of Islamic law that keeps…
This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within t…