The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten PhD fellows to its four-year doctoral programme, which is to begin on 1 October 2023. The Graduate School is a joint institution of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, which brings together scholars in...
Read More »Book: Music and its Effects
In this booklet, the author discusses the detrimental effects of music on our lives. He talks about the origin of music and its effects from various points of views. He also discusses what the Qur'an and narrations of the Ahlul Bayt have to say on...
Read More »No Changes Should be Made to Muslim Personal Law in Conflict with Islamic Law
Indian Union Women’s League (IUWL) national general secretary P.K. Noorbina Rasheed has requested the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice constituted to review personal laws in the country that no...
Read More »1st Islamic Shari’a Compliant Account Launched by the Ugandan Bank
Uganda's Finance Trust Bank on Thursday launched the country's first Islamic Sharia compliant account called Halal...
Read More »Family & Rights Groups Urge Release of Tunisian Woman Jailed in Saudi Arabia
The sister of a Tunisian woman jailed in Saudi Arabia over promoting Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement by retweeting only a post has called on Tunis authorities to intervene for her release from the...
Read More »Book: The Shī‘ah and Islamic Disciplines
The invaluable legacy of the Household [Ahl al-Bayt] of the Prophet (may peace be upon them all), as preserved by their followers, is a comprehensive school of thought that embraces all branches of Islamic knowledge. This school has produced many brilliant scholars who have...
Read More »Between Qum and Qayrawān: Unearthing Early Shī‘ī Ḥadı̄th Sources
In this article, I develop and test a new methodology of unearthing early Shī‘ī ḥadı̄th sources that served as the basis for the later collections of the fourth/tenth century. This method, besides answering the question of historicity, enables us to understand the dissemination of...
Read More »New Released: Islamic Theological Sects: A Textbook
The English translation of "Textbook of Theological Sects and Religious Sects" compiled by Mortaza Maddahi and translated by Hujjat al- Islam Mohammad Reza Peysepar in order to introduce some of the views of Islamic scholars to the...
Read More »A Partial Solar Eclipse Will Put On a Show, How to Perform Ṣalāt al-Āyāt
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The eclipse will become visible first in Reykjavik, Iceland, at 8:58 a.m. local time; where the sun will eventually be about 20 percent covered...
Read More »The 13th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy to be Held in Japan
The 13th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (ACERP2023), will be held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, Japan....
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