In a tragic helicopter crash, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Friday prayer leader of Tabriz Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, alongside other officials, lost their lives en route to the....
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This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world....
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Whereas most of the theological works by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) have been preserved and are now available in critical editions and have partly been studied, only some of the kalām writings by his most prominent student, the Shaykh al-ṭāʾifa Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067), are...
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what practical lessons do we as a community take from Lady Zaynab (a.s) immense contribution to humanity? How well do we appreciate the monumental impact she made on the...
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The documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and economic history....
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Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with the country’s officials in charge of conducting and organizing Hajj pilgrimage. The gathering took place in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah on Monday, prior to the commencement of the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage journey for pilgrims. As Muslims embark on the sacred journey …
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