This is a call for a one-day brainstorming meeting regarding Death and Shiite Muslim Migrants which will be held in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University, in the...
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The sustainability, continuity and stability of a marital life depend on love, understanding and respect for mutual rights. In order for the family, which is small social unit, to be solidified and strengthened, the religion of...
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The opinion of the Shia' jurists and the School of Thought of the Ahl al-Bayt (the family of the Noble Prophet of Islam (s)) is that meat that has not been slaughtered according to Islamic laws, the ruling is...
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Those responsible of state affairs have to use their intelligent methods to thwart terrorist plans, monitor the regions that might turn into a terrorist breeding ground and do not allow any...
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When his father was told about the situation, he wrote a letter (toward his son) that I am not content to see you attend anyone’s class but Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Hassan Isfahani’s...
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In this article, I propose to put into the balance the various theories (including my own) that have been advanced about the Qurʾān as a...
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This study inventories and analyzes Mālikī legal opinions (fatwās) discouraging or prohibiting the pilgrimage to Mecca (the ḥajj) for Muslims in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, North Africa, and West Africa) from the...
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The 2019 Annual International Imam Khomeini Conference, Organised by the Research Group of Anjuman e SharaieShian and Hawza Ilmiya Jamia Babul Ilm, was held in The Oriental College of...
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Social networking sites have been buzzing with tweets and reactions following news of Wednesday's opening of the first disco, or what the Singles Benite Club Halal has known, as part of a...
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People of India stage a demonstration demanding the reconstruction of the Jannat al-Baqee cemetery in Medina that was destroyed in 1925 by the government of Saudi Arabia and...
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