Future of Islam in Europe was discussed by academics at a conference in Istanbul's Ibn Haldun University on Thursday...
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Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq’s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for...
Read More »Why Did Al-Demerdash Bin Zaki al-Aghili Convert to Shia?
Al-Demerdash al-Aghili is among the contemporary and official people guided to Shia religion. He was born in 1930 in Egypt in the middle region of Asyut, Aghal village in Hanafi, Sunnism family...
Read More »Video: English Women Wearing ‘Hijab’ 100 Years Ago
This footage shows that women in the North of England wear hijab just over 100 years ago...
Read More »Book: Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
Read More »Palestinian Scholars Issue a Fatwa against Normalising Relation with Israel
Normalising relations with Israel is a threat to the beliefs of all Muslims, the International Association of Muslim Scholars said yesterday....
Read More »Are Those Who Their Mother or Grandmother Is ‘Sayyida’ Considered as Sadat?
Regarding to the great honor of the Holy Prophet's descendant (pbuh) among the believers and the importance of observing Islamic laws related to...
Read More »Without Fairness, Polygamy Is Forbidden: Al-Azhar’s Imam
Egypt’s leading imam drew criticism from other Sunni clerics for referring to polygamy as “an injustice to women and children” that the Quran restricts...
Read More »British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
Read More »The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam
One-Day workshop on “The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam” will be held in Woolf Institute Cambridge on March 4. This event will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss the role and legacy of Fatima in Shia Islam. Discussants and moderators include: Father Christopher Clohessy, …
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