Despite the central place of tawba in Islamic faith and practice, tawba has to date been the subject of very little serious academic research. The purpose of this study is to fill something of this scholarly lacuna by examining early Sufi approaches to this concept with a partic…
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This thesis assesses the mitigating impact of repentance upon the fixed punishments for brigandage (hiraba ), theft, and the accusation of fornication (qadhf ) under Islamic law, focusing on classical sources of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir ), law (fiqh ), and legal theory (usul al…
"‘The Doctrine of Repentance is probably one of the most needed books, not only for us as ministers, but for our people, because repentance is so trivialized today. [This book] stresses the need for ongoing repentance, a daily repentance, a lifestyle of repentance. Like Luther s…
