Research & Publications

An uṣūlī reading of the place of artificial intelligence in the development of the science of tafsīr

This paper addresses an epistemological question that moves beyond the direct technical use of artificial intelligence in tafsīr to something deeper: is Qur’anic exegesis a science capable of renewal in response to the renewal of reality and of the tools of knowledge — and where does artificial intelligence fall within this trajectory? The paper pr…

A critical examination of the evidences, the modes of inference, the loci of disagreement, and objective-based weighing

A comparative study in fiqh, legal theory (uṣūl), and the higher objectives (maqāṣid) concerning the ruling on the Farewell Ṭawāf. It clarifies the precise point of dispute and shows that the axis of disagreement is not the authenticity of the text but the import of the command, the characterization of the menstruating woman’s dispensation, the cha…

A Qurʾanic grounding of the lawfulness of their slaughter, applied to American markets through the principle of the predominant (al-ghālib) and the jurisprudence of the means

This paper investigates the ruling on the slaughtered meat (dhabīḥah) of the People of the Book through a Qurʾanic approach that establishes the continued validity of the designation "People of the Book" for Jews and Christians and the rulings on food and intermarriage that rest upon it, while accounting for the disbelief and qualified polytheism t…

From the Eligibility of the Mufti to the Fatwa Ecosystem

An academic research work that develops and expands a peer-reviewed paper originally presented at the 15th Annual Imams' Conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in 2018, to address our era's new questions: How do we approach fatwa in the age of short-form video and generative AI? Organized in ten chapters across three section…

Challenges and Solutions

A peer-reviewed paper presented at the 10th World Conference of the General Secretariat for Houses and Bodies of Iftaa Worldwide (Cairo, August 2025), held under the theme "Forming the Wise Mufti in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." The paper maps the reality of digital fatwa in the United States, tracing the technical, linguistic, and cultural …

A peer-reviewed paper presented at the 15th Annual Imams' Conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in Houston, February 2018. The paper offers precise definitions of fatwa, mufti, mustafti (questioner), eligibility, and chaos. It then examines the conditions of the mufti across three categories (legal capacity, scholarly, and …

On women's legal capacity and right to daʿwah, and the contemporary questions of her media and public presence in the West

A study grounding women's full legal capacity (ahliyyah) in Islam — political, in religious obligation, in testimony, and in granting protection — and then applying that grounding to the contemporary questions of her daʿwah in Western society: lecturing in mixed assemblies, media appearance, hosting programs, a husband's prevention of her daʿwah ac…

A thesis for which the author was awarded the doctoral degree (al-ʿĀlamiyya) in Tafsīr and Qurʾanic Sciences — al-Azhar University

This doctoral thesis examines the methodology of preponderance (tarjīḥ) employed by the Granadan exegete Imām Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbī (d. 741 AH) in his celebrated tafsīr, al-Tashīl li-ʿUlūm al-Tanzīl. Through close textual analysis, it reconstructs the principles upon which Ibn Juzayy founded his weighing of competing opinions—those rooted in the Qurʾ…

A thesis for which the author was awarded the Master's degree (al-Takhaṣṣuṣ) in Tafsīr and Qurʾanic Sciences — al-Azhar University

This Master's thesis presents a scholarly critical edition (taḥqīq) and study of Taʾwīlāt Ahl al-Sunna, the tafsīr of Imām Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333 AH), within the compass of Sūrat al-Aʿrāf. The researcher establishes the text against its manuscript originals, collates its several copies, and supplies takhrīj for its Qurʾānic verses, ḥadīths,…