An eastern Iowa non-profit group is offering sports hijab to Muslim girls to encourage them to play sports and stay active...

The following is a lightly-edited selection from baḥth al-khārij (advanced jurisprudence) lectures of Sayyid Aḥmad Madadī, a respected jurist and student of Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-Khūʾī and SayyidʿAlī al-Sīstānī. He resides and teaches in the holy city of...

Egypt's top Sunni Muslim authority, Al-Azhar, has issued a statement expressing harassment of Women is religiously forbidden and should be punished ‘regardless of the context or...

Madrid is a great halal destination for a holiday, business trip or a city break. It has plenty of Muslim-friendly services that take into consideration their necessities regarding food and....

What is the reason for the prophet’s (pbuh) silence during his lifetime regarding the khalifahs? Why didn’t he just unveil their true intentions in the beginning so that what happened after his...

The Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America holds a conference annually, that brings together scholars from across Canada and the United States. The topic of the 17th Annual Conference, held this year in the Washington DC metropolitan area, was “Ingenuity, Cooperation, and Mediation.” Clerics, preachers, and imams came …

The kidnapping, which is considered forced disappearance in legal terms, is one-time instance throughout history, Sadruddin Sadr said at a meeting commemorating the 40th anniversary of...

The edited volume "Beyond Karbala: New Approaches to Shiʿi Materiality" (working title) seeks out to explore materially expressed Shiism, with a renewed focus on non-ʿAshūrāʾ rituals, practices and objects...

Al-Amini’s arguments are very common arguments made by Shias today. All Muslims agree with the basic statement that occurred at Al-Ghadir, however, Sunnis reject some details that Shias add. Sunnis do not accept that the Prophet (peace be upon him) was ordered to....

Human cloning is of the issues that have recently come to the fore. As examining an issue in jurisprudence is impossible before shading light on its all corners, exploring its inner and outer aspects, and defining its good and bad consequences; the religious researchers and...