The first political, yet conspiratorial, conference that was held in Islam was the Saqifah Conference, which was held immediately after the passing away of the Holy Prophet (s) and before his holy body was...
Read More »Allamah Tabatabaei’s Behavior with his Children
‘Allamah Tabataba’i was very affectionate with his children, as well as his grandchildren. Sometimes he would spend an hour of his valuable time listening to our chatting, or teaching us how to...
Read More »A Message from Allah to Allamah Tabatabaei
I am Shah Husayn Wali! God says [to you] “in these 18 years when have I ever let you go hungry that you have now abandoned your studies and fallen into the thought that until when will the relations between Iraq and Iran remained strained and when will they send …
Read More »Is Sahih al-Bukhari Considered to Be an Authentic Source? Why Can’t the Hadith al-Thaqalayn Be Found in it?
I have searched Sahih al-Bukhari trying to find the Hadith al-Thaqalayn but unfortunately wasn’t able to. I wanted to know whether Sahih al-Bukhari is considered to be an authentic and reliable...
Read More »Call for Papers: Leadership through Service, Development through Learning, Cooperation through Dialogue
The British Board of Scholars and Imams is an apolitical national assembly of imams, traditional scholars and religiously learned academics formed to facilitate scholarly intra-Muslim research and dialogue and...
Read More »Job Opening: Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam
Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam (chaired by Prof. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab) examines the emergence, flourishing and lasting appeal of non-conformist movements in Islamic intellectual history from the...
Read More »Imam Hasan al-Askari’s Traditions and Jurisprudence
Historians agreed unanimously that Imam Abu Muhammad (a.s.) was the richest scientific personality in his talents at his time, and no one was ever comparable to him in virtue and...
Read More »An Introduction to al-Tabarsi’s Makarim al-Akhlaq
The book Makarim al-Akhlaq, by Shaykh Abu Nasr Hasan b. Fadl al-Tabarsi, a scholar in the sixth century A.H, is one of the most renowned works, which has become an important source of Islamic morality and...
Read More »Allamah al-Hilli on Imamate in his Kashf al-Murad, Part 1
This is a chapter on the responses to objections raised against Imamate from prominent scholar Allamah Hilli's Kashf al-Murad, expanded on from Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's...
Read More »The Child and the Religious Duties
It is true that the boys attain the age of responsibility (Baligh) at fifteen and the girls at age nine. This is the age when the juridical norms become mandatory for...
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