The Institute’s efforts to pursue and promote a profound and insightful study of Islam, both at the national and international levels, find their sustained projection in its three quarterly research journals: Al-Dirasat al-Islamiyyah (Arabic), Islamic Studies (English) and Fikr-o-Nazar (Urdu) as well as its books and other publications in Arabic, Urdu and English.
The Institute has published more than 150 books on various Islamic subjects dealing mostly with Islamic Law and History, Philosophy, Education, Culture and other areas. These books have been equally appreciated by people belonging to different schools of thought in Pakistan and have served as good models of serious and responsible research not only in modern universities but also in the institutions of traditional religious learning. By emphasizing the common denominators in our intellectual heritage, by addressing itself to issues that are of concern to all sections of the Pakistani society and to Muslims of all shades of opinion, and by adopting an approach which finds a resonance in the hearts and minds of the upholders of both traditional and modern perspectives, the Institute has been contributing to an informed and responsible intellectual interaction between different sections of the society.
Great Books of Islamic Civilization
An important project being currently pursued is the publication of one hundred significant and rare books of Islamic thought, culture and civilization. Under the plan one hundred great books, classified subject-wise under twelve broad categories of knowledge, are to be produced. The works of the Great Books series, selected in consultation with eminent scholars as books of first intensity that have mattered in the history of human thought in general and Islamic thought in particular, have been authored by the early savants, sages and scientists and are thought to have laid the foundation of a new faith-inspired and knowledge-based Islamic Civilization in human history.
The Great Books series is in addition to the Institute’s regular programme of publication under which, among other projects, classical works which presently exist as manuscripts are to be translated, edited and published. More than a dozen manuscripts in the fields of Islamic Law, Jurisprudence, History and Tasawwuf have already been published and many more are in various stages of preparation for printing. These efforts form part of the Institute’s humble contribution towards bringing to light the intellectual achievements of Muslim scholars, thinkers and scientists and preserving the cultural legacy of Islam.
The Islamic Research Institute has been assiduously trying for the past 43 years to promote in-depth understanding of Islam, its thought, history, civilization, culture and world-view. Though its primary concern is the fostering of the intellectual tradition of Islam in all its dimensions, it has also been contributing to the promotion of inter-faith and inter-civilizational dialogue to lay a firm basis for an understanding between Islam and other religious and cultural traditions. It has been playing its role in projecting Islam’s principles and values, its message of peace and amity to the world, and its universal blessing conquering all differences and prejudices.
Publications
The books published by the institute can be directly purchased at discounted prices from the Publications Section, IRI, Faisal Masjid Complex, Islamabad, Pakistan. (Phone 92-51-2254874; Fax 92-51-9260769).
Holy Quran with English Translation (M.M. Pickthall)
The Qur'anic Concept of History (Mazheruddin Siddiqi)
Islamic Methodology in History (Fazlur Rahman)
The Emergence of Islam (Muhammad Hamidullah, Transl. Afzal Iqbal)
Concept of Muslim Culture in Iqbal (Mazheruddin Siddiqi)
The Socio-Political Thought of Shah Wali Allah (Muhammad al-Ghazali)
The Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyah (Qamaruddin Khan)
Ideology of Pakistan (Sharif al Mujahid)
Muslims and the West: Encounter and Dialogue (Eds. Zafar Ishaq Ansari, John L. Esposito)
Modern Reformist Thought in the Muslim World (Mazheruddin Siddiqi)
Searching for Solace : A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur’an (M.A. Sherif)
Muslim Understanding of Other Religions: A study of Ibn Hazm’s Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal (Ghulam Haider Aasi)
Maulana Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi: Hayat-o-Afkar ke Chand Pehloo (Ed. Safir Akhtar)
Imam Abu Hanifah: Hayat, Fikr aur Khidmaat (Eds. Muhammad Tahir Mansoori, Abdul Hie Abro)
Mujam Istilahat-i-Hadith (Dr. Sohail Hasan)
Islamic Renaissance in South Asia 1707-1867: The Role of Shah Wali Allah and His Successors (Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi)
The Conclusive Argument from God: Shah Wali Allah of Delhi’s Hujjat Allah al-Baligha (Transl. Marcia K. Hermansen)
To God Belong The Names Most Beautiful (Neyyar Ehsan Rashid)
Transition to a Riba Free Economy (Waqar Masood Khan)
Atharvin Sadi Easvi main Barr-e-Saghir Main Islami Fikr Kay Rehnuma (Ed. Muhammad Khalid Masud)
The Early Development of Islamic Jurisprudence (Ahmad Hasan)
Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (The Commandment of Shari’ah and Juridical Norm) (Ahmad Hasan)
Islamic Legal Philosophy: A Study of Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi's Life and Thought (Muhammad Khalid Masud)
Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law (Muhammad Khalid Masud)
Theories of Islamic Law (Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee)
Islamic Jurisprudence (Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee)
The Doctrine of Ijma‘ in Islam: A study of the Juridical Principle of Consensus (Ahmad Hasan)
Crime and the Islamic Doctrine of Preventive Measures (Dr. Mohammad Muslehuddin)
Analogical Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence: A study of juridical principle of Qiyas (Ahmad Hasan)
Judicial System of Islam (Ghulam Murtaza Azad)
The Muslim Law of Divorce (K. N. Ahmed)
Landlord and Peasant in Early Islam: A Study of the Legal Doctrine of Muzara'a or Sharecropping (Ziaul Haque)
Islamic Law of Business Organization: Partnerships (Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee)
Al-Kindi: The Philosopher of the Arabs (George N. Atiyeh)
Amir Khusro-Dehlivi (Life and Poetry) (Syed Sabahuddin Abdur Rehman) Out of Stock
Islamic Education: Its Form and Features (Dr. Mohammad Muslehuddin)
Muslim Military History: A Preliminary Bibliography (Muhammad Naeem)
Islam and Evolution of Science (Muhammad Saud)
Islam in History and Society (Malek Bennabi, Trans. Asma Rashid)
The Scientific Method of Ibn al-Haytham (Muhammad Saud)
Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law (Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan)
Islam and Economic Development (M. Umer Chapra)
Manual of Style (Muhammad Khalid Masud, Muhammad Naeem)
Islamic Research Institute Library Resources and Services (S.A. Zafar)
Islam and Everyday Living (Muhammad Zubair Farooqui)
Revivalism and Renaissance in Muslim India (1707-1867) (Out of Print)
Family Laws of Iran (Dr. Sayyid Ali Reza Naqavi)
Iqbal's Reconstruction of Ijtihad (Muhammad Khalid Mas’ud)
Islamic Jurisprudence and the Rule of Necessity and Need (Dr. Mohammad Muslehuddin)
The Refutation by Alexander of Aphrodisias of Galen's Treatise on the Theory of Motion (Nicholas Rescher, Michael E. Marmura)
International Islamic Conference (Ed. Dr. M.A. Khan)
Islam and Secularism in Post-Kemalist Turkey (Muhammad Rashid Feroze)
Izz al-Din al-Sulami: His Life and Works (Sayyid Rizwan Ali)
Index of Islamic Studies (Vol. 1 to 20) (Ahmad Khan)
Catalogue: National Exhibition of Books on Sirah 1984 (Reader: Muhammad Khalid Masud)
Workshop on Technical Editing (Ed. Dr. M. Khalid Masud)
Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973 (Arabic)
Al-Kindi wa Ara'uhu al-Falsafiyyat (Arabic) (Dr. Abdul Rahman Shah Wali)
Maqsud al Muminin (Arabic) (Libayazid al-Ansari, Ed. Dr. Mir Wali Khan al-Masudi)
Kitab al-Infaal (Arabic) (Raziuddin Abi al-Fazael Al-Hasan Bin Mohammad Bin Al-Hassan Al-Saghani, Ed. Dr. Ahmad Khan)
Kitab al-Nafs wal al-Ruh (Arabic) (Al-Imam Fikr al-Din Mohammad Bin Umar al-Razi, Ed. Dr. Muhammad Saghir Hasan Al-Masumi)
Imam Razi's ‘IIm al-Akhlaq: Kitab Al-Nafs wa’l-Ruh wa Sharh Quwahuma (M. Saghir Hasan Ma‘sumi)
Al-Rustamiyyat (Arabic) (Abi Sa‘id Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al-Rustami Al-Isbahani, Dr. Abu Mahfooz al-Karim al-Masumi)
Al-Rasi‘il al-Qushayriyyah (Arabic) (Abi Al-Qasim Abdul Karim Bin Hawazan Al-Qushayri, Transl. Dr. Pir Muhammad Hasan)
Inbi'ath al-Islam fi Al-Andulas (Arabic) (Ali al-Muntasir al-Kitani)
Kitab al-Amwal (English/Arabic) (Abu Ja‘far Ahmad Ibn Nasr al-Daudi, Ed. & Trans. Abu’l Muhsin Muhammad Sharfuddin)
Ikhtilaf al-Fuqaha (Arabic) (Al-Imam Abi Jafar Ahmad Bin Muhammad al-Tahawi, Ed. Dr. Muhammad Saghir Hasan al-Masumi)
Kitabl al-Muntakhab fi'l Fiqh (Arabic) (Out of Print)
Kitab Ma'dan al-Jawahir ba-Tarikh al-Basra wa al-Jazair (Arabic) (Shaykh Numan Bin Muhammad Bin al-Iraqi, Ed. Dr. M. Hamidullah)
Al-Ubab al-Zakhir wa al-Lubab al-Fakhir Vol. I-IV (Arabic) (Abi al-Fazael Al-Hasan Bin Muhammad Bin Hasan al-Saghani, Ed. Dr. Pir Muhammad Hasan Al-Makhdoomi)
Kitab al-Siyar al-Saghir (Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, Transl. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi)
Sharh-e-Majallah (Allama Mohammad Khalid Attasi, Transl. Mufti Amjad al-Ali)
Musnad Imam Abò Hanifah (Arabic) (Al-Imam Abu Naeem Ahmad Al-Subhani, Ed. Dr. Muhammad Abdul Shaheed Naumani)
Kitab al-Fiqh al-Nafi‘ (Arabic) (Abi Al-Qasim Muhammad Bin Yousuf Al-Samarqandi, Ed. Dr. Ahmad Khan)
Mu'jam al-Safar (Arabic) (Hafiz Abu Tahir Al-Silafi, Ed. Dr. S.M. Zaman)
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Shakhsiyyat wa Kirdar (Karam Haidry)
Bimah ki Shari'i Haythiyyat (Dr. Hussain Hamid Hasan, Transl. Abdul Rahim Ashraf Baloch) Out of print
Hudud-o-Tazirat wa Qisas-o-Diyat (Fiqh Ja‘fari) (Urdu) (Ed. Dr. Syed Ali Raza Naqvi)
Fikr-o-Nazar Kay Pandrah Saal (Urdu) (Ahmad Khan)
Urdu main Qur’an aur Hadith Kay Muhawaraat (Urdu) (Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan)
Usul al-Karkhi (Urdu) (Imam Ubaydullah Bin al-Husain al-Karkhi, Transl. Abdul Rahim Ashraf Baloch) Out of print
Hudud-o-Tazirat (Urdu) (Transls. Dr. Ahmad Hasan, Siddique Arshad Khilji, Ghulam Murtaza Azad)
Riba aur Mudarabat (Urdu) (Transls. Dr. Noor Muhammad Ghaffari, Muhammad Mian Siddiqui, Ghulam Murtaza Azad, Siddiqui Arshad Khilji, Abdul Rahim Ashraf Baloch)
Law of Duress in Islamic Law and Common Law: A Comparative Study (Khaled Abou El-Fadl)
The Impact of the Qur'an on the Development of Muslim Geographic Thought (Akhtar Hussain Siddiqi)
Characteristics of the Islamic State (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
Appellate Review and Judicial Independence in Islamic Law (Muhammad Hashim Kamali)
The Significance of Shafi'i's Criticism of the Medinese School of Law (Zafar Ishaq Ansari)
Shatibi's Theory of Meaning (Muhammad Khalid Masud)
Meaning of History: A Study of the Views of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (Talib M. Aziz)
Tabaqat-Biography: Law and Orthodoxy in Classical Islam (George Makdisi)
Perspectives in a Religious System: The Role and Status of Poetry in Islam (Amidu Sanni)
Developmental Trends in Contemporary Muslim Experience (Louay Safi)
Early Muslim Cities in Sindh and Patterns of International Trade (Mohammad Rafique Mughal)
Social Background of a Hermeneutics of the Qur'an: The Case of Bosnia (Anto Knezevic)
Tax-Farming in Islamic Law (Qibalah and Daman of Kharaj): A Search for a Concept (Khaled Abou El-Fadl)
The Muslim Image in the Twentieth Century Anglo-American Literature (Rasha al-Disuqi)
The Radical Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Sayyid Qutb (Aref Ali Nayed)
A Renaissance of Islamic Education: Al-Hidayah Islamic Pre-School Centre in Malaysia (Anne Sofie Roald)
Muslim Diaspora: The Sufis in Western Europe (Khalid Duran)
Muslim Activism, Islamization or Fundamentalism: Exploring the Issues (James Veitch)
Islamic Resurgence and the "Problematic of Tradition" in the Modern Arab World (Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi)
Settlement of Disputes by Arbitration under Shari'ah and at Common Law (Vincent Powell-Smith)
Traces of Early Muslim Presence in Makran (Valeria Fiorani Piacentini)
The Mosque and the Market Place: An Eighteenth Century Islamic Renaissance in West Africa (David C. Davis)
Induction, Science and Causation: Some Critical Reflections (Yamine Bouguenaya Mermer)
Islam, Science and Islamic Social Ethics (Ausaf Ali)
Elite-Formation under Colonial Rule: Capable Administrators Or Loyal Servants? A General Survey of Colonial Rule in Muslim Countries (Abdullah al-Ahsan)
Development: Ethical Competence in the Information Age (Abderrahmane Azzi)
Islamic Ecotheology Based on the Qur'an (Soumaya Pernilla Ouis)
The Notion of History in the Qur'an and Human Destiny (Yadullah Kazmi)
Islam in Southeast Asia and the 21st Century: Managing the Inevitable Challenges, Dilemmas and Tensions (Hussain Mutalib)
Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi's Doctrine of Wahdat Al-Shuhud (Abdul Haq Ansari)
The Scope of Diversity and Ikhtilaf (Juristic Disagreement) in the Shari‘ah (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
The Revived Nation of Islam and America's Western System in the 1990s: Ambiguous Protest of a New Black Elite (Dennis Walker)
Maqasid al-Shari'ah: The Objectives of Islamic Law (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
The Notion of Murabbi in Islam: An Islamic Critique of Trends in Contemporary Education (Yedullah Kazmi)
Languages of Change in Islamic Law: Redefining Death in Modernity (Ebrahim Moosa)
Notions of 'Male' and 'Female' Among Contemporary Muslims: With Special Reference to Islamists (Anne Sofie Roald)
Her Honour: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Provisions in Pakistan's Ordinance on Zina (Asifa Qurashi)
Faith and Knowledge in Islam: An Essay in Philosophy of Religion (Yedullah Kazmi)
Matua Untouchable Writers in West Bengal: Between Islam India’s Changing Upper Caste-led System (Dennis Walker)
The Right to Personal Safety and the Principle of Legality in the Shari‘ah (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
Husayn Ibn Mansur Al-Hallaj: Ideas of an Ecstatic (M. Abdul Haq Ansari)
Issues in the Legal Theory of Usul and Prospects for Reform (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
Social Justice in Islam (Dr. Ahmad Zaki Yamani)
Islamic Education: Traditional Education or Education of Tradition? (Yedullah Kazmi)
The Islamic Art of Asking Questions: ‘Ilm al-Ikhtilaf and the Institutionalization of Disagreement (John Walbridge)
The Qur’an as Event and as Phenomenon (Yedullah Kazmi)
The Greco-Syriac and Arabic Sources of Barhebraeus’ Mineralogy and Meteorology in Candelabrum of the Sanctuary, Base II (Hidemi Takahashi)
“Now or Never!” Inter-Faith Dialogue and The Recovery of ‘True’ Hinduism as Seen in the Writings of Acharya Maulana Shams Naved ‘Uthmani (Yoginder Sikand)
Values and Ethical Issues in Science and Technology: A Muslim Perspective (Mehdi Golshani)
Toward a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of the Moroccan Philosopher Muhammad ‘Abid al-Jabiri (Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘)
The Origin of Islam as a Social Movement (Ahmed Afzaal)
The Power of Interpretation: Is Istihsan Qiyas? (Murteza Bedir)
Understanding the Qur’an in the Light of Historical Change (Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu)
The Rise of Christian Fundamentalism in the United States and the Challenge to Understand the New America (Muhammad Arif Zakaullah)
Repetition in the Qur’an: A Relevance Based Explanation of the Phenomenon (Salwa El-Awa)
Ibn ‘Arabi’s Contribution to the Ethics of Divine Names (Qaiser Shahzad)
Istihsan and the Renewal of Islamic Law (Mohammad Hashim Kamali)
The Caliphate of Reason (John Walbridge)
American Views of Islam, Post 9/11 (Joseph B. Tamney)
Teaching of Islamic Law and Shari‘ah: A Critical Evaluation of the Present and Prospects for the Future (Muhammad Khalid Masud)
The Islamic Law Maxims (Khaleel Mohammed)
The Rise and Fall of Culture of Learning in Early Islam (Yedullah Kazmi)
Muslims in Slovenia (Anja Zalta)
The Raison d’etre of Madrasah Maulana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanvi Introductory Remarks and English Translation (Muhammad al-Ghazali)
Islam and Peace: A Survey of the Sources of Peace in the Islamic Tradition (Ibrahim Kalin)
The Imaginal World (‘Alam al-Mithal) in the Philosophy of Shah Wali Allah al-Dihalw (Fuad S. Naeem)
A Literary Critical Approach to Quranic Parables (Ayaz Afsar)
The Methodology of Abdolkarim Soroush: A Preliminary Study ( Charles D. Fletcher)
Islam in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature: A Selected Bibliography (Hafiz Abid Masood)
Inquisition Proceedings against Muslims in 16th Century Latin America (Rukhsna Qamber)
Southeast Asian Response to the Clampdown on the Darul Arqam Movement in Malaysia, 1994-2000 (Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid)
Plot Motifs in Joseph/Yusuf Story: A Comparative Study of Biblical and Qur’anic Narrative (Ayaz Afsar)
Textual Analysis in Islamic Studies: A Short Historical and Comparative Survey (Fikret Karcic)
Sufism in History and its Relationship with Power (Tanvir Anjum)
Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur’an as Literature in an American Public University (Carl W. Ernst)
Imrana: Rape, Islam, and Law in India (Barbara D. Metcalf)
Rewriting Sufi Identity in the 20th Century: The Biographical Approaches of Maulana Ashraf’ Ali Thanvi and Khwajah Hasan Nizami (Marcia Hermansen)
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