In the rich culture of Islam, marriage is considered as the best and greatest structure which is made of cordiality, devotion, and self-satisfaction whose architecture places these in the nature and fate of the workers (i.e. husband and wife) of this structure and insistently encourages Muslims to...
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This issue of multi marriage not only can reduce men’s variety desire but also could...
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Hijab is one of the indispensable parts of the Islamic Law which has its roots in human emotions, reason, and intellect; it is also closely related to the realities of human life Therefore, if people consider the philosophy behind the legislation of Hijab and...
Read More »Hikmat Academic Event: Medical Bioethics in Shi’i Fiqh
Hikmat International Institute, in collaboration with universities, academic institutions, and independent scholars and researchers, organizes event titled ‘Medical Bioethics in Shi'i Fiqh’ which is hold on...
Read More »15th Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference (2023)
The 15th anniversary Muslim mental health conference is hosted by the Muslim Mental Health Consortium at Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Psychiatry...
Read More »The Routledge Handbook of Halal Hospitality and Islamic Tourism
The book examines halal hospitality and lodging, Islamic markets, product developments, heritage, certification, and emerging and future trends and issues....
Read More »Islamicate Textiles: Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual
This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of Central Asia to Tanzania, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and...
Read More »A Comparative Study of Women’s Social Status in the Quran and the Hebrew Bible
The present work adopts the descriptive method and cites numerous verses of the Old Testament and the Quran to present women’s social status in the course of the society according to religious rulings and doctrines under the notions of human dignity and...
Read More »The Role of Theologian Women in Contemporary Iran on Reducing Religious Violence and Gender Discrimination
This paper examines religious violence among Muslims against women - as a case study of Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979....
Read More »Islamic Shari’a Law, Neotraditionalist Muslim Scholars and Transgender Sex-Reassignment Surgery: A Case Study of Ayatollah Khomeini’s and Sheikh al-Tantawi’s Fatwas
By studying the fatwas, the paper analyzes the main juridical reasons behind the fatwas of Khomeini and Al-Tantawi, who might be called neotraditionalists, and the issuance of such progressive fatwas through their classical methodology of...
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