The inaugural issue of the biannual Journal of Pazhūhish-hāyi Fiqh-i Ijtimāʿī (Social Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Research, published in Persian) has been released, featuring six scholarly articles.
The journal is published by Baqir al-ʿUlum University, with Seyyed Ehsan Rafiei Alavi as managing director and Hasan Kheiri as editor-in-chief. Established in Spring 2025, the journal aims to generate literature and expand jurisprudential research related to society’s practical needs and social issues. Its scope includes the nature and issues of social jurisprudence, methodological approaches, contemporary and applied branches of fiqh, as well as the views of jurists and Islamic thinkers on social fiqh.
Articles in this issue include:
- Social fiqh: Foundations, Approach, and Scope, with Emphasis on the Thought of Ayatollah Mohammad Jawad Fazel Lankarani;
- Social fiqh: Subject, Scope, Characteristics, and Method;
- An Introduction to the Fiqh of Culture from a Systematic Approach: Nature, Modality, and System of Issues;
- An Examination of the Contexts for the Formation and Flourishing of Governmental Fiqh in the Thought of Imam Khomeini;
- The Normative Ruling on the Excessive Waste Production from the Perspective of Imāmī Fiqh;
- A Jurisprudential Examination of Rulings on the Killing of Non-Muslim Women and Children in War.
Journal website: official issue page.
