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Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam : debates on Shi'a jurisprudence / by Kadivar, Mohsen

Table of Contents: “…Literature Review of Religious Freedom and Apostasy in Contemporary Sunni Islam -- Literature Review of Religious Freedom and Apostasy in Contemporary Shi'i Islam -- The Genealogy of the Book's Ideas and its Merits -- Blasphemy and Apostasy -- The Background of the Treatise -- Legal Rulings (Fatawa) on Assassination and Statement of Delight at its Implementation -- Objections to the Fatwa of Assassination / Kadivar -- Response to Doubts Surrounding Apostasy / Lankaran I. Jr. -- Treatise on Refuting the Punishment for Blasphemy and Apostasy / Kadivar -- Issuing a Ruling on the Death Penalty by a Process that Falls Outside the Sphere of a Competent Court will Engender Lawlessness and Anarchy -- Claiming the Validity of the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy is Based on One Deficient "Isolated Report" (khabar al-wdhid) -- Refuting the Claim that Most of the Hadiths on Apostasy are "Mutawdtir in Meaning or in their General Tenor" -- Refuting the Claim of Consensus (ijmd) and the Necessity to Implement the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy -- No One, during the Time of the Prophet, Imam Ali and the other Imams, was Sentenced to Death Solely for Apostasy -- The Absolute Cessation of the Hudud Punishments or those that Necessitate the Death Penalty and Injury, and Suspension during the Time of the Imam's Occultation -- "Isolated Reports" (khabar al-wdhid) are Non-probative (non-hujjiyya) in Matters of Critical Importance -- Issuing fatwas on Killing an Apostate or a Blasphemer Weakens and Impairs (wahn) Islam -- Alteration of the Subject (mawdu) of Apostasy and Objecting to the Perpetual Applicability of the Death Penalty for Blasphemy and Apostasy -- The Incompatibility of Executing a Blasphemer or an Apostate with Explicit Quranic Verses -- A Further Clarification of Lankaranl Jr's Position -- Rafiq Taqi in his Own Words and in the words of his Defenders -- Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech / Kadivar -- Islam: Between the Freedom of Expression and the Prohibition of Hate Speech -- Letter of Censure to the Jurists who Issued the Latest Judgement on Apostasy -- Insulting the Prophet is a Form of Hate Speech -- Request for Clarification from the Jurists who Defend "Suffocating the Religionists" -- Imam [Ali]: Political Leader or Exemplary Role Model / Ali Asghar Gharavi.…”
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Kashefi's Anvar-e Sohayli : rewriting Kalila and Dimna in Timurid Herat / by Ruymbeke, C. van

Table of Contents: “…; 2 Sir William's 1771 Sugarchest; 3 A Language Exercise; Chapter 7 -- A Collaborative Effort: The "Noble" HereditaryLine of KD Versions and Translations in the PersianTradition; 1 Concerns, Doubts and Queries; 2 The Lost Sanskrit Text; 3 Borzuyeh's Lost Pahlavi Text; 4 The Old Syriac Version; 5 Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Arabic KD; 6 Balʿami's and Rudaki's Opus Geminum; 7 Nasrollah Monshi's KD Prosimetrum; Chapter 8 -- Conclusions; Bibliography; Index…”
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