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Read More »Call for Book Chapters: “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century”
This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular...
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Diploma in Sunni Islam Usul al-Fiqh and Fiqh Studies explores the principles and the complexities of Islamic Jurisprudence in a way that is relevant to the...
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The objective of this conference is to take stock of these esoteric uses of the Qur’an and to examine how they relate to each other and to non-esoteric traditions and methods, to set them in the...
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Ayatollah Khamenei, in response to the letters of Ismail Haniyeh, Head of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Ziyad Nakhalah, Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, called the struggle against the occupiers of Palestine resistance a struggle in the face of...
Read More »Early Shi’i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al-Baqi +PDF
Using hitherto largely ignored Shi'i sources, Arzina R. Lalani explores Imam Muhammad al-Baqir's pivotal contributions to Islamic thought in its early formative period, contributions that were powerfully to affect developments in...
Read More »Letter from Palestinian Islamic Jihad to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran
In a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad hails Iran’s support for the resistance front in its 12-day war against the Israeli regime, extending his congratulations to...
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