TUB: Commentaries and Future work

By Robert Gleave In this series of four blog essays, Rob Gleave and Kumail Rajani of the University of Exeter, UK, introduce the digital database of Twelver Shīʿī legal theory … Continue reading TUB: Commentaries and Future work

Resources for the History of Twelver Shīʿī legal Theory: The Twelver Uṣūl Bibliography

By Robert Gleave In this series of four blog essays, Rob Gleave and Kumail Rajani of the University of Exeter, UK, introduce the digital database of Twelver Shīʿī legal theory … Continue reading Resources for the History of Twelver Shīʿī legal Theory: The Twelver Uṣūl Bibliography

Welcome to our June Guest Bloggers: Robert Gleave and Kumail Rajani

Robert Gleave is Principal Investigator of the Law, Authority and Learning In Imami Shiite Islam project (LAWALISI), based at the University of Exeter, a five-year project funded by the European … Continue reading Welcome to our June Guest Bloggers: Robert Gleave and Kumail Rajani

Weekend Scholarship Roundup

D. Fairchild Ruggles’ Tree of Pearls The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) provides insight into the remarkable life of Shajar al-Durr, … Continue reading Weekend Scholarship Roundup