Head of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, has passed away at the age of 70 after months of suffering acute ill health.
Read More »Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Passes Away
Chairman of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, passed away at 70. The health condition of Ayatollah Shahroudi had turned worse on Sunday, and he was in the...
Read More »The Life of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th Century Iran
The present chapter introduces two Iranian female mujtahidahs, Nuṣrat Amīn (1886 - 1983) and Zuhrah Ṣifātī (1948 - ), who represent like few other contemporaries the status of female religious authority in 20th century Iran, divided by the...
Read More »Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority+PDF
Throughout Shiʿi history, scholars (ʿulamāʾ) have been trying to answer the following question: in the absence of the Prophet and the Imams, how is sure knowledge (ʿilm) derived?...
Read More »Shi’i Doctrine, Mu’tazili Theology: al-Sharif al-Murtada and Imami Discourse+PDF
In this book, the writer provides us with a rigorous, detailed account of aspects of the theological enterprise of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044), the famous Shiʿi theologian, littérateur, jurist, and....
Read More »The Main Challenge for a Muslim Woman Is Hijab
“Because of the function of the mass media in the west, Europeans think that Muslim women are illiterate and marginalized and they are not able to make any decision,” the head of the European Union of...
Read More »Book: Sociology of Shiʿite Islam +PDF
In these collected essays writer has persistently developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the...
Read More »US Muslims Launch Campaign to Show Faith’s Regard for Jesus
To help educate people on the significance of Jesus in Islam, Ahmed's group, The Humanitarians, a Muslim interfaith organization, is launching a monthlong campaign that includes billboards along...
Read More »US Congresswoman to Use Quran for Swearing-in Ceremony
When Rashida Tlaib stands on Jan. 3 for her ceremonial swearing in as the first Palestinian-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, it will be with her hand on a copy of the Quran....
Read More »Call for Papers: McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium 2019
The organizing committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium invites abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on April 4-5, 2019 at...
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