Fiqh & Socitey

This paper will examine the historical study of Shi͑ism in Western Academia. It will argue that until the last four decades, Western scholarship studied Shi͑i Islam primarily through a...

This paper discusses issues of halal food and its role in halal tourism with specific reference to Malaysia and Singapore which have majority and minority Muslim...

Nature has always been respectable and heavenly in the eyes of the religious man who regards the world of nature as the scene of divine glory and beauty, and damaging nature as the...

The Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) program strives to promote research and education about Islam and the Middle East to the University community. About the Center The Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) program strives to promote research and education about Islam and the Middle East to the University …

This study aims to investigate external barriers to political freedom, approaching to Quran with the question that, what the external barriers to...

This article looks at the historic presence of the festival, survival as boria (choral street performance) and alleged Shi‘a roots in...

This paper aims to shed light on the way Ṣadrā interprets al-Kāfī and particularly to determine his understanding of the ʿaql (intellect) at the cosmic (as first created being) and...

The International Conference on “Society and Culture in the Muslim World” (SCMW) seeks to explore the suitability of the concept in dealing with the main issues faced by Muslim societies and...

The Grand Ayatollah Sistani, in a statement while answering questions about the Coronavirus, also made important recommendations for...

In 23rd March, 1922, the Hawza Seminary of Qom was established by Shaykh Abd al-Karim Ha’iriYazdi, the well-known Shia scholar....