Fiqh & Socitey

Hajj is a collection of rites and observances. It is a number of action and recitation. They are all combined to be performed within a certain time and place. The result is worship, and an enlightening action conducive to the building up of the Muslim character. It effectively rebuilds the....

I am deeply saddened by the silence of the international community regarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the repeated attacks on Islamic and Christian holy sites,” said the grand imam of...

The verdict on listening to music might be unclear and confusing to many Muslims. So our goal in these articles is to make a clear explanation on case 20 in the second volume of “Minhaj Al-Salehin” According to the verdict of...

A day after the Speicher massacre, the bereaved nation was addressed by Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who commands tremendous respect from all sections of Iraqi society.During a Friday prayer in the holy city of Karbala, the fatwa was issued on his behalf calling on all Iraqi citizens to defend the...

A person who can perform Hajj by borrowing money is not able to perform Hajj, even if he can pay later his whole debt at once or by installments, unless he has assets that can pay his debt from them....

The Journal of ‘Contemporary Study of Islam’ (JCSI) is delighted to invite researchers and scholars to submit their papers in a special issue of the Journal on the topic of ‘Islam and the Discourse of...

Abd Allah b. 'Abbas b. `Abd al-Muttalib (d. 68/686-7), paternal cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and of `Ali b. Abi Talib, is in modem Islamic studies generally acknowledged as one of the founders of religious scholarship in Sunnite Islam.....

The present volume of Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses offers a fascinating insight into the history, the main ideas and current developments in economic thought from the perspective of the three major monotheistic faiths Judaism, Christianity and....

Wearing the Iḥrām is amongst one of the Hajj rituals and putting it on marks the beginning of the Hajj: special clothing for a special type of worship. On an apparent level, some may come to the conclusion that for one of the....

I have been saying that Imam Khomeini is still alive and that the Ummah should adopt his thoughts,” the leader of the IMN and one of the disciples of the late founder-leader of the Islamic Revolution, says Sheikh...