About

RECEP ŞENTÜRK is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and the Founding President of Usul Academy. Dr. Şentürk holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Department of Sociology and specializes in Civilization Studies, Sociology, and Islamic Studies with a focus on social networks, human rights, and modernization in the Muslim world. 

Do all people in the world have rights? Although this principle is not consistently practiced today across the globe, there is now a widespread consensus in discourse affirming universal human rights. But why? Why should all human beings possess rights? This book presents the Islamic response to this question by drawing from the classical literature of Islamic law, or fiqh, and providing a comparative analysis of different Islamic schools of law alongside modern approaches to the issue of rights.

New Publication

Futuwwah is the way our Creator wants us to be for a successful and happy life by combining sound knowledge with noble character. In this book, we aim to revive futuwwah morality, which has been forcefully attacked by secularists to erase it from our collective memory and our cultural genes during the past two centuries.

New Publication

Forthcoming Publication

The 2nd revised edition of Comparative Theories and Methods: Between Uniplexity and Multiplexity is soon to be published.

Contact

E-mail
rsenturk@hbku.edu.qa — recep.senturk@usul.academy