Governing & Policy

I know that the office of Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf is not involved in family politics and the continuation of the institution of marjaiya is to some extent related to this fact that it should be away from...

Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in...

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...

Though, the Muharram mourning in Kashmir have a history of being targeted by many intolerant rulers but the struggle by all awakened sections of the society ceased the practice from being...

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced Shia cleric and human rights activist Sheikh Mohammed al-Habib to 12 years in prison and imposed a travel ban on him, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its...

Government forces in Nigeria have attacked mourners marking the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH) on Ashura, killing at least 12 people and...

“We support the oppressed throughout the world; Kashniri people should resist against the oppressors and follow the Ahlul Bayt’s tradition. Today everybody is expected to be actively engaged in supporting the oppressed, and the...

The legacy of Imam Hussain is still invoked as a source of strength when Iranians face insurmountable challenges, such as threats of war. While President Donald Trump may claim that a...

Sheikh Ahmad ibn Hamad al-Khalili, the Grand Mufti of Oman, responded to the letter of Iranian Cleric, Ayatollah Ja'afar Sobhāni...

Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Haeri, a prominent Twelver Shi’a Marja in Iraq, has called for resisting the presence of US forces in Iraq in wake of Israel’s indirect acknowledgment that it had carried out...