Governing & Policy

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....

Al-Azhar al-Sharif, the world’s leading Sunni Islamic institution, called on the Arab and Islamic nations to profoundly reconsider their reliance on the ‘arrogant’ Western European and American powers....

Once again, we are in the midst of a cruel and bloody war between Israel and the Palestinians. Many things are as they always are in such wars; Israel’s indiscriminate and unproportional use of force against civilians, failure to acknowledge its responsibility regarding the...

Ayatollah Bashir Hussein Al-Najafi, a prominent religious leader, called on people around the world to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in the wake of Israel's military actions in response to attacks by Palestinians last Saturday, resulting in hundreds of casualties among both...

Iraq’s Top Shia Cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani has called on world countries to stand up against the “'terrible Brutality” by the Zionist regime against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and prevent further suffering of the innocent people in...

Bahrain’s highest Shia religious authority Sheikh Isa Qassim has hailed the Palestinian operation by the Hamas resistance movement against Israel....

Through unity and adopting a unified policy on fundamental issues, the Islamic countries will be able to deal with the interferences of the United States and other bullying, aggressive powers, Ayatollah Khamenei said. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei meets with a group of Iranian people and …

There is a string of questions and even criticisms regarding Imam al-Sadiq. The issue of vice-regency was not put forward to all the Imams only to the following four Imams: Imam ‘Ali, Imam al-Hassan, Imam al-Ridaand Imam al-Sadiq. In Imam al-Sadiq’s case, there is the issue of briefly offering the...

The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early...

This article is an introduction that Martyr Murtadha Mutahhari wrote for his book 'The Mutual Services of Islam and Iran' first published in...