International Conference on “The Qur’an in its Milieu of Origin. Possibilities of the Historical Reconstruction of the Qur’anic Revelation” will be held on November 2019, in...
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This essay investigates the reasons underlying women’s increasing use of the Islamic courts by examining the attitude of Indonesian Muslim women towards divorce and divorce law as reflected in the narratives they present when petitioning for divorce in court....
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This study argues that the discourse on hudud would not be complete unless hard questions surrounding its substance and practical procedures are....
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Bahrain’s most senior Shia cleric outlines how a so-called peace plan devised by the United States under President Donald Trump seeks to irreversibly compromise Palestinians’ entire....
Read More »Palestinian, Lebanese Clerics Boycott ‘Deal of Century’
A group of over 100 Palestinian and Lebanese clerics held a meeting in the Lebanese city of Saida, condemning the American-Israeli plot of Deal of the...
Read More »Despite the Absence of Kitaballah and Sunnati in Sunni Books, Sunnis Insist on It!
Does this tradition really exist in Ṣaḥīḥayn (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī)? Not at all! This is a weak tradition. It exists in no one’s book. Not in Bukhārī’s, Muslim’s, or Abū Dāwūd’s. No one has mentioned it in his book; not Nessāī, Tirmidhi, or Ibn Mājah. Not even one of the authors of Kutub al-Sittah or the six...
Read More »Between Realism and Resistance: Shiʿi Islam and the Contemporary Liberal State
This Article divides modern Shi'i thought into four categories and concludes as a general matter that at least three of those categories appear possibly compatible with liberalism, and a fourth almost appears to...
Read More »What Is Salat (Prayer) +PDF
Salat (Prayer), this standing and bending down; This way of sitting and laying the forehead on the ground; Uttering words in...
Read More »What Do Shias Misunderstand about Sunnis?
What is even more regrettable is that most of “differences” which perpetuate the sectarianism are based on misconceptions, false assumptions, and sometimes even lies. From politicians with special interests to pseudo-scholars who enjoy support based on hatred of...
Read More »The First and the Largest Encyclopedia on the Fatwa of Holy Defense Published
Believing in the role of the Fatwa given by the highest religious Marja’iyah about defending Iraq, its people, and its sanctities and its coincidence with the fifth remembrance of its announcement, Al-Abbas (pbuh) Holy Shrine accomplished a War History Encyclopedia about the...
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