This study seeks to offer an introductory account focusing on the subjects of Islamic finance and economics. There is visible need for such an account since there is no comprehensive literature that can be employed in courses being offered in courses on....

The University of Chester is hosting a two-day online conference that aims to re-engage with the question of how Islam and science could, should and do relate to one another....

Khums should be divided into two parts. One part is for the Sādāts which should be given to a sayyid who is poor, or orphan or who has become penniless during journey. The other portion of...

The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi considered it necessary to establish communication between Shia and Sunni scholars and added: “If we have more contact with Sunni scholars, we can...

This book is a study of the concept of wilāya and its developments among Shīʿī scholars from the eighteenth to twentieth century. Leila Chamankhah addresses a number of issues by delving into the....

Rights group FAIR International, which has founded Germany’s first reporting center for attacks on mosques, has recorded nearly 840 such incidents since 2014....

Ayatollah Hossein Ali Nouri Hamedani, an Iranian Shīʻī Marjaʻ called on Islamic seminaries to strengthen their international relations....

The Kaʻba is a place for the rest of hearts. This is a place where spiritual food is provided to starving and dying souls. It is a spiritual sanctuary for human society in this corrupted and stormy world full of...

Wael Hallaq is one of the leading scholars in the field of Islamic law, and well qualified to evaluate the historical Shari‘ah, in comparison with both modern legislation and today’s heavily politicized presentation of Islamic law.....

Islam has strongly emphasized the concept of decency and modesty in the interaction between members of the opposite sex. Dress code is part of that overall teaching. There are two verses in the Qur’an in which Almighty Allah talks about the issue of decency and hijab as defined earlier. The …