Master of Arts in Contemporary Islamic Studies

Muhadarat-e-Sîrat is a series of 12 lengthy lectures delivered the Prof. Mahmud Ghazi (1950-2010), ex-President of International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI). The lectures were delivered in the year 2006 at Islamic Research Institute, IIUI and each lecture was an hour and 45 minutes long. In 2007, it was published after careful transcription and since then has seen several prints. The total no. of pages in its original, dense print is 761.

This project will examine the discourse of social media preachers in France. More generally, it aims to contribute to the study of the emerging virtual Muslim public sphere in France. 

Arab countries that derive their family rulings from Islamic law, the genetic fingerprint is not used in denying lineage, as is the case in Saudi, Qatari and Egyptian law. As for the Algerian law, fingerprinting is permitted in both cases, for proof and denial.

Abu al-Hasan al-Bakri was a great Shafi‘i jurist and renowned Sufi scholar who lived toward the end of the Mamluk period in Egypt. He was a prolific writer and was known by his contemporaries as ‘Shaykh Shuyukh al-