The Islamic College of London invites abstracts to be submitted for its fifth conference specialising in the flourishing field of Shi‘i studies. This conference will provide a broad platform for...
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Egyptian super-star Mohamed Salah has allegedly threatened to leave Premier League football club Liverpool if Arab-Israeli soccer player Moanes Dabour joins the...
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One of the most controversial Shiʻi texts today is a sermon in Nahj al-Balaghah (an early eleventh century collection of materials attributed to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib) describing women as deficient in faith and intellect. This is only one of several passages in Nahj al-Balaghah which come across as...
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Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority who was recently discharged from a hospital in London, left the British capital for Iraq and arrived in holy city of ....
Read More »Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi Laid to Rest in Qom
Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, who passed away on Monday at the age of 70 after months of ill health, was laid to rest in the holy city of Qom on...
Read More »Prophet Jesus (p) in Islamic Tradition
Like in Christianity, Muslims also believe that the birth of Jesus (p) was a miraculous one—as he was only born to a mother without a father, and his mother Mary (p) was a...
Read More »Ayatollah Khamenei’s Message on the Passing of Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi
The Supreme Leader of the Iran Islamic revolution—Ayatollah Khamenei— issued a message, expressing condolences for the passing of the great faqih, the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council...
Read More »Muslims and Christians Celebrate Christmas Together
Just alike Christians, Muslims believe that God gifted Jesus with the ability to bring the dead back to life, heal the leper and bring sight back to the blind and they believe that Jesus Christ (PBUH) will return to...
Read More »Ancient Prophet for a Modern World-The True Story of Jesus (P)
The story of the birth of Jesus is so eloquently and passionately described in Chapter Nineteen (Surah Maryam) of the holy Quran that it brings one to tears. There are approximately ninety Ayaat spread across fifteen Surahs of the...
Read More »He Is as Promising Future for Islam & Treasure for Sharia: Martyr al-Sadr
Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi who lost his father in childhood followed his father in his career and became one of the special students of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir Sadr. It is said that his master had called him as a promising future for
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