The Association of Lebanon’s Muslim clerics is demanding the immediate release of jailed Nigerian Shia scholar and leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky whose health condition is...

It seeks contributions that will help provide a more comprehensive account of Muslim travel cultures and provide a greater understanding of the current debates associated with Muslim leisure behavior while travelling in the context of businesses, communities, destinations, and the...

Between 120 and 160 Pakistani Shias were 'detained' and reported 'missing' in the past several years. Many were taken away on their return from Iran, Iraq or Syria...

At a meeting with masters, scholars and intellectuals of Qom's seminary the Leader of the Revolution, while interpreting a statement, referred the audience to advice by the late Ayatollah...

In Minor Marriage in Early Islamic Law, Carolyn Baugh offers an in-depth exploration of 8th-13th century legal sources on the marriageability of prepubescents, focusing on such issues as maintenance, sexual readiness, consent, and a...

This book is a first step in a comprehensive attempt to contrast Hadith with the Qur`an in order to uncover some of the unjust practices by Muslims concerning women and gender issues...

Nigerian army troops have attacked a peaceful protest rally demanding the immediate release of the country’s senior Muslim figure Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, who has been held in detention along with his wife for...

The earliest surviving work on Shia sects, Kitab Firaq al-Shia by al-Nawbakhti offers a uniquely Twelver Shia perspective on early Shia movements, including the Zaydis, the Ismailis, and extremist sects (ghulat)...

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī is a Shiite mujtahid and scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in the Qajari period. He was a prominent scholar of fiqh in his time, and one of the first faqihs who was known with the title "Hujjat al-Islam"...

Abū al-Ḥasan Sha'rānī (b. 1320/1902 - d. 1393/1973) was a Shiite scholar and philosopher in the fourteenth/twentieth century, knew French and English, and was an expert in Quranic studies, hadith, fiqh, usul al-fiqh, kalam (Islamic theology), Islamic philosophy, geometry, and...