Governing & Policy

This study aims at analysing two texts which are highly concerned with the issue of rights, namely, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted and proclaimed in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations and Treatise on Rights ‘Risalat Al-Huquq’ written by Imam Ali Al-Sajjad (p.b.u.h.) …

The leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky condemns terrorist attack on Shia mosque in the Peshawar, Pakistan....

The Karbala uprising is the most unique arena for self sacrifice for the cause of religion, freedom, and reform, which has been inspirational to many later...

In this event, the third in our four-part series on racism, we'll hear from people who have come to realize their role in maintaining racist attitudes and...

The office of the Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a statement following the tragic explosion of Kucha Risaldar Mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan....

A massive explosion ripped through a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) yesterday called for an end to the Russia war in Ukraine, a statement posted on the union's website said....

Bahraini authorities are tightening their grip on civil society by targeting the Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS), one of the leading rights organizations in the...

The concept of protecting the Citadel of Islam (Hifẓ Bayzat al-Islam), is common in the lexicon of Shiʿi political jurisprudence. It refers to those Islamic principles and foundations without which the...

The discourse on sharia courts, fraught as it is with a plethora of complexities is one of the most challenging, yet compelling domain of disquisition and articulation within contemporary socio legal debate and...