Fiqh & Socitey

In a message of condolence, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has offered his condolences on the martyrdom-like demise of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and his esteemed entourage.....

Ayatollah Nasir Makarim Shirazi, one of the Shia religious authorities sent a condolence message over the passing of the Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi.

In a tragic helicopter crash, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Friday prayer leader of Tabriz Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, alongside other officials, lost their lives en route to the....

This phenomena was caused by the promotion of an invented idea which called for the Imamate to be terminated with Imam Mousa ibn Ja'fer (A.S.), claiming that he did not actually die but was still alive, that he was the Qa'im (Mehdi) of the Progeny of...

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world....

This article presents an endowment note as the only surviving material trace from the famous library of the Shiʿite scholar ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (589/1193–664/1266).....

The 5th Global Congress of Imam Reza (A.S) kicked off today, May 13, and is underway until May 14 in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, northeast of Iran....

Whereas most of the theological works by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) have been preserved and are now available in critical editions and have partly been studied, only some of the kalām writings by his most prominent student, the Shaykh al-ṭāʾifa Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067), are...

Within the Imāmī-Shiʿi Muslim tradition, the traditional institution of higher religious learning is commonly known as...

what practical lessons do we as a community take from Lady Zaynab (a.s) immense contribution to humanity? How well do we appreciate the monumental impact she made on the...