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The Age of Aisha: An Appraisal of the Traditional and Revisionist Perspectives

1 Comment / Hadith Research, The Prophet: Life and Actions /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This detailed paper delves into the question: how old was ‘Aisha (rA) when she married Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)? It examines the arguments for the traditional opinion that ‘Aisha was nine years old at the time of consummation of marriage and the alternate-opinions arguments presented by scholars who question the authenticity of […]

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Answering Revisionists: Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Jew or a Christian?

2 Comments / Answering Heresies, Islamic Jurisprudence /

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Muslim community has from the beginning unanimously held that it is impermissible for Muslim women to marry Jewish and Christian men. In recent times certain revisionists have advocated the permissibility of such interfaith marriages. In this paper the arguments of such revisionists is critically analyzed and it is convincingly shown that

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Hanafi Jurists and the Punishment of Non-Muslim Blasphemers

4 Comments / Answering Heresies, Islamic Jurisprudence /

Waqar Akbar Cheema* Abstract Lately Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have been subject to much controversy. Critics often times go on to hit the very substance and origin of the laws. In this backdrop the opinions of the Hanafi jurists are usually misunderstood and misquoted. In this article we analyze how the opinions of Hanafi jurists relate

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Al-Jami’ of Ma’mar bin Rashid: Extinct or Extant?

2 Comments / Authority of Hadith /

Download pdf here Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract The Jami’ of Ma’mar is one of the earliest hadith compilations extant today and its existence refutes the widespread notion that hadith compilations only began in the third century AH. Although most scholars have accepted the attribution of the Jami’ to Ma’mar bin Rashid, there has been some

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Opposition to Rajm (Stoning): Analysis and Refutation

7 Comments / Answering Heresies /

Download pdf here Waqar Akbar Cheema & Gabriel Al Romaani Abstract Muslims are often faced with the difficulty of people in the “modern” world pressuring them to change their viewpoints to conform better with what is socially accepted by society. Many of these people (not just non-Muslims, but Muslims as well) see the prescribed punishments

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Ghamidi, Muwatta, and the Return of ‘Eisa

22 Comments / Answering Heresies /

Waqar Akbar Cheema 1. Introduction In recent times Mr. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi has come up as the champion of ‘fresh’ and unorthodox interpretation of Islam reaching out to Pakistani audience. It’s not the time to dwell and comment on the background and reasoning for the peculiar deliberate and characteristic non-conformist approach. However, we must see

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