The Indian Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the instant triple talaq bill which criminalises instant divorce by Muslim men and seeks jail term for the guilty...
Read More »Book: The State, Ulama and Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia
The author argues that, while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in “capturing” the state by influencing policies in their favor...
Read More »Ayatollah Sobhani Delivers Official Letter to the Oman’s Grand Mufti
The stories published by the media over the attempts made by Oman to prepare a proper ground for establishing friendly relations with the Zionist Regime are highly questionable. The brave Islamic scholars, especially your excellency, are, therefore, expected to warn the...
Read More »After the Ayatollah: Institutionalisation and Succession in the Marjaʿiyya of Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍl Allāh
This paper deals with the death of a high religious authority, the Twelver Shiʿi marjaʿ al-taqlīd, or “Grand Ayatollah”, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍl Allāh...
Read More »In the Difference between Marja & Wali Faqi’s Opinions What Should I Do?
According to Ayatollah Khamenei, what should people do when there is difference of opinion between a Marja and Wali Faqih.....
Read More »Steps to Eliminate Racism and Discrimination in the Muslim Community
Unfortunately, we may often see discrimination in our own communities among different ethnic and racial groups. This is even the case among varying ethnicities from within a single country. To deal with this situation, the foremost strategy at our...
Read More »Waqf in Zaydī Yemen: Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge...
Read More »New Dar Al-Fatwa Established in Afghanistan
Few days ago, the president of Afghanistan established a New Dar-Al-fatwa (Religious Fatwa Issuance Center) aiming to have a specific address for issuance of religious fatwa in...
Read More »Palestine’s Identity Unalterable: Al-Azhar
Al-Azhar has condemned the recent demolition of dozens of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem by Israeli occupation forces, stressing that Palestine’s Islamic and Arab identity will never...
Read More »The Making of a Marjaʿ: Sīstānī and Shiʿi Religious Authority in the Contemporary Age
This paper examines the phenomenon of marjaʿiyya, considers how one becomes a marjaʿ, and traces the rise of Sīstānī to the pre-eminent position that he now holds and juxtaposes his model of leadership with other modern Shiʿi models of...
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