This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in...

That man who is standing at the portal is Allamah Majlesi who has been called “The Mediator for visiting the holy Imams (P.B.U.T.)” by the holy Prophet Muhammad (May Allah's peace be upon him and his...

In this article, the “Iranian ART Revolution” that has allowed donor technologies to be admitted as a form of assisted reproduction technology will be examined...

The Indian Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the instant triple talaq bill which criminalises instant divorce by Muslim men and seeks jail term for the guilty...

The author argues that, while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in “capturing” the state by influencing policies in their favor...

The stories published by the media over the attempts made by Oman to prepare a proper ground for establishing friendly relations with the Zionist Regime are highly questionable. The brave Islamic scholars, especially your excellency, are, therefore, expected to warn the...

This paper deals with the death of a high religious authority, the Twelver Shiʿi marjaʿ al-taqlīd, or “Grand Ayatollah”, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍl Allāh...

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, what should people do when there is difference of opinion between a Marja and Wali Faqih.....

Unfortunately, we may often see discrimination in our own communities among different ethnic and racial groups. This is even the case among varying ethnicities from within a single country. To deal with this situation, the foremost strategy at our...

This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge...