This comparative study examines the legal requirements for marriage in Islam as well as the legal requirements for mutʿa within Shiʿi traditions...
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Al-Demerdash al-Aghili is among the contemporary and official people guided to Shia religion. He was born in 1930 in Egypt in the middle region of Asyut, Aghal village in Hanafi, Sunnism family...
Read More »Video: English Women Wearing ‘Hijab’ 100 Years Ago
This footage shows that women in the North of England wear hijab just over 100 years ago...
Read More »Book: Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
The present volume focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, ninth through fifteenth century CE, through a close study of...
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Normalising relations with Israel is a threat to the beliefs of all Muslims, the International Association of Muslim Scholars said yesterday....
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Regarding to the great honor of the Holy Prophet's descendant (pbuh) among the believers and the importance of observing Islamic laws related to...
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