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...
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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....
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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...
Read More »Seeing through the Thick Fog of the Islamophobia Assault on Hijab
The current Islamophobia assault on hijab in Iran should be understood as part of a hybrid warfare against the Islamic Republic. For more than 60 days, unsubstantiated news stories full of hypes, Orientalist tropes, and...
Read More »The System of Rights of Women in Islam: Revised Edition of The Rights of Women in Islam
The book presents a realistic picture of women's rights in Shi’ah Islam. Contrary to popular propaganda, the laws, teachings and practices of Islam provide a complete system for a dignified life for women....
Read More »Muhammad Is 2nd-Most-Popular Boys’ Name in Netherlands in 2022
The name is given to 671 baby boys in Netherlands last year, according to data released by Dutch Social Insurance Bank....
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