Fiqh & Socitey

Faced with an army mutiny and violent demonstrations against his rule, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was forced to flee Iran. Following Shah escape, Imam Khomeini extended his...

The 8th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop, at the Al-Mahdi Institute, seeks to provide a forum for considering the regulations of im/purity (ṭahāra and najāsā) in Islam, in light of ...

This conference invites papers on the topic of clergy-state relations in Twelver Shia Islam, from the post-ghayba period (ca. 941 CE) to...

The history of Shīʻism in Bahrain has long been a neglected area of academic  attention; partly  due to a lack  of  easily  accessible  sources...

In this paper, the writer discusses the intellectual genealogy of Ayatollah Muhammad Kazim al-Yazdī, and locates his education and the legacy he inherited from his masters in...

Human intellectual development and the maturity of his intellect require his freedom in thought, expression and behavior. However, this freedom is limited since unconditional freedom is nothing but chaos and...

Iraq's prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani has called on security forces to protect peaceful demonstrators in protest squares across the...

A Kaduna High Court yesterday fixed February 24 and February 25, 2020 for the trial of leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and...

In Islam "the principle of ibaha" (i.e. the principle that everything is allowed unless you know otherwise) has been confirmed and in Islamic texts and sirah (way of life) of the...

This article critiques the current literature, arguing that Sadr’s thought is neither authoritarian nor liberal-democratic, but rather it is a type of constitutional democracy meriting the...