They’re not the sort of couple one is likely to encounter in many parts of the country: a hijab-wearing Muslim woman with a Harvard law degree and a white Lutheran pastor...
Read More »“Halal Management System-Hotels” Start to Attract more Muslim Tourists
The Republic of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism is preparing a state standard project called “Halal Management System – Hotels”. The project has general requirements for hotels offering halal services...
Read More »Human Rights & Freedom Inseparable from Quran: US Professor
Human rights and freedom are inseparable from Islam, a discussion featuring prominent Muslim academic Dr. Nader Hashemi said to the oundtable discussion entitled “Is liberty an Islamic value?” organised by...
Read More »Thousands Washington Protesters Slam Trump’s al-Quds Blunder
The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organizations, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Amarican Society (MAS), the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations,Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC) and Jews United Against Zionism took their...
Read More »Trump’s Jerusalem Move Turned Muslims’ Attention to Al-Quds: Ayt. Modarresi
Trump’s Jerusalem Move infuriated Muslims all around the world; the plan to move Israel’s capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds turned Muslims’ attention towards al-Quds since it was the first Qiblah in Islam, said Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Modarresi in a statement...
Read More »Third Global Forum on Islamic Bank to be Held in Turkey
The General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI), the global umbrella of Islamic financial institutions will organize its third Global Forum on...
Read More »Shi’i Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times (Xviiith-Xxth Centuries)
This volume comprises a collection of papers from various contributors ranging from historians to religious scholars and is separated into three parts. Part one focuses on philosophy and mysticism, the second on Shi’i jurisprudence and part three on doctrinal debates and...
Read More »Call for Papers: Reading Is Believing? Sacred Texts in a Scientific Age
This multi-disciplinary colloquium will examine ways in which the modern world has posed challenges to the scriptural traditions of Islam and Christianity, and will explore how exegetes and believers within each religious have responded...
Read More »Report on Congress of Interreligious Dialogue+Pics
The Interreligious congress, which was sponsored and supported by the Secretariat of Worship, was attended by more than 250 people from different faith backgrounds. The participants included the members of Ministry of Government, NGOs, the Provincial Interfaith consul of...
Read More »Book: The Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression & Islamic Law
The book “The Rule of Law, Freedom of Expression and Islamic Law” drawing on both International and Islamic Law, explores the rule of law, and freedom of expression and its practical application in the Muslim world. The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value …
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