Archiver #1 This book aims to both rediscover and advance practical notions of commonweal, or common good, retrieval in an Islamic social order. The first chapter explores shuʿab al-īmān or “branches of faith,” which is a holistic system of values and actions derived from various sound hadiths, though largely overlooked today. Musa Furber analyses classical texts and …
In a philosophical idiom that attempts to be intelligible to the reader who is not traditionally trained, this study outlines various dimensions of traditional Islamic ‘correspondence’ theories of truth. It particularly argues that purely intelligible, ‘abstract’ concepts, universal natures and general principles objectively apply to the world, against schools of thought that contend that they …
This paper in the series explores one of the first principles of metaphysics, the principle of identity in its logical form, namely, the principle of non-contradiction, and the relationship between its metaphysical and logical dimensions. It is invariably the task of revelation to provide definable and recognizable references that can be brought into human understanding. …
This study explores how Muslims use the Internet for religious purposes and whether usage patterns vary between Muslim minority and Muslim majority states. PDF: English
This essay addresses the welfare of animals farmed industrially for consumer markets, from the perspective of the Sacred Law. PDF: Arabic • English
This paper frames ‘ethics’ as a science of the soul. By focusing on the role of an integral metaphysics within the ambit of the classification of sciences, it seeks to both determine the parameters of ethics and also underline the relationship between modes of being and modes of action. PDF: Arabic • English
It is for the purpose of securing all that is beautiful that God revealed the Sacred law. Any attempt to modify or implement it in a piecemeal fashion only distorts it, leading to ugliness rather than beauty. PDF: Arabic • English
In this piece, Musa Furber offers a hypothesis to express reasons of faux fatwa “fiqhtion addiction”, and propose activities to address the problem. PDF: Arabic • English
Lecture given by Dr. Karim Lahham at the Cambridge Muslim College, Cambridge, England, on March 2015. PDF: Arabic • English
A case study in Islamic Law and Ethics by Musa Furber. Animals are at the heart of many of today’s heated ethical and legal debates. This paper presents a survey of Qur’anic verses and prophetic narrations related to kept animals, and a study of one school’s application of this evidence to the topic of kept …