Fiqh & Socitey

Malaysian author and scholar Sayyid Farid Alatas blamed the silent majority of Muslims in Malaysia for the existence of sectarianism and the oppression and harassment of Shia Muslims in the country...

Ulama and Islamic scholars around the world have urged all Muslims and Islamic countries to terminate all ties with Israel in a bid to save Palestine...

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message to participants attending the 52nd conference of the Islamic Union Association for Iranian Students in Europe. ..

The characters and thinkers on the African continent are working on this continent to spread the religion of the Ahlul-Bayt (P.B.U.T) and seek to spread Shiite denomination through the setting up of institutions and associations...

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hussaini Sistani has told a Pakistani delegation in Iraq’s holy city Najaf that Pakistani nation must strengthen their unity at all cost...

Bahraini regime forces, backed by masked militiamen, have arrested a Shia Muslim cleric on the northwestern coast of the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown and persecution of the...

Marking One Year of Resistance: Impacted refugees, leaders and dozens of organizations will host an Islamic prayer circled by a human chain-- in front of the White House, followed by a rally and march to CBP headquarters in...

It invites proposals for papers, which present case-studies of the rediscovery and understanding of Islamic objects in the 17th and 18th centuries and at the same time engage with the implications of early interpretations of Islamic objects in Europe...

Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Bāqir b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Sharīf al-Iṣfahānī (b. around the year 1202/1787 – d.1266/1850), known as Ṣāḥib al-Jawāhir (the author of al-Jawahir), was an Usuli Shiite scholar of fiqh in the thirteenth/nineteenth century in Najaf. His most important work is the book, Jawahir …

Marja' is a mujtahid who is followed by a number of the Shi'as, that is, some Shi'as practice their religious acts in accordance with that of mujtahid's jurisprudential views (that is, fatwas) and pay their judicial alms (al-wujuhat) to him or his representatives. To follow a religious scholar in...