Center for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam
The Centre’s writing on the interpretation of Islam and its intellectual questions.
“The Day I Stopped Praying,” first published in the Saudi newspaper Al-Eqtisadiah, is the best-known article of Saudi writer, media figure and charitable worker Najeeb al-Zamil.
Read more
A response to al-Mawdudi’s view of prayer, fasting, zakat and Hajj, and his claim that the purpose for which they were imposed is establishing the Islamic state.
Read more
This godly Salafi imam is known for sound creed, understanding the reality of worship and the objectives of Islamic law, and freedom from philosophical, materialist and utilitarian ideas.
Read more
Even if those endowed with wisdom and decisive speech gathered together to devise enduring ways of justice, perfect morals and protection of human rights, their understanding would fall…
Read more
Reason may independently recognise the goodness or badness of actions immediately or after reflection. Minds differ in their discernment, so that the same action may seem good to…
Read more
The Council of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, affiliated with the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, considered research on secularism and discussions highlighting its danger to the Muslim…
Read more
I write these words while the world is preoccupied with the great epidemic caused by the pathogen known as coronavirus, which has spread widely, making many people ill…
Read more
After the surah recounts the prophets and their communities, ending with the Hour, its nearness, its precursors and people’s condition on the Day of Resurrection, this verse mentions…
Read more
Perhaps the meaning of the political interpretation of Islam has now become clear through what I have written and published so far: a theory that makes the establishment…
Read more
On 24 Safar 1397 AH, corresponding to 15 January 1977, the World Conference on Guiding Religious Outreach and Preparing Preachers was held in the blessed city of Madinah…
Read more
By His Eminence Shaykh Dr. Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Sa‘id, faculty member at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University.
Read more
Know, brother in Islam, that slaughter is among the greatest forms of worship. It is a way of worshipping, humbling oneself, and drawing near to God, mighty and…
Read moreRead · Research · Reflect
Browse books by author and subject, and download the available editions.
