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Some Arabic establishments have turned their back to Palestine by submitting to the already-failed US deal, Sheikh Isa Qassim told the 33rd International Islamic Unity Conference, which opened in...
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Read More »Ayatollah Sistani Receives Head of UNAMI
The office of the Supreme Religious Authority in Najaf Ashraf issued a statement about his meeting with the special representative of the Secretary-General for...
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The modern city of Samarra is situated on the bank of the river Tigris some sixty miles from the city of Baghdad. The city is of outstanding importance because of its two shrines...
Read More »Book: Shiʻi Islam, An Introduction
In this book, the writer hopes to shed light on the some of the questions that likely motivated a reader to pick it up in the first place: What are the differences between a Shiʻi and a Sunni Muslim? How did these differences develop over time in...
Read More »The Features of the Shi‘a from the Perspective of Imam al-Sadiq
In this article, Imam al-Sadiq, the sixth Shi‘a Imam, gives advice to his companion Abd-Allah ibn Jundab on the features of a true Shi‘a, some of which are those who know God, heed the hereafter, constantly engage in...
Read More »Why Allama Tabatabaei Did not Invite Guests?
He lived in a rented house and I remember that he moved from one house to another several times. His house was very small and humble that he could not even receive his...
Read More »Wisdom of the Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.): The Main Pivot of Islamic Unity
A study of the issue of marja’iyyah in the Qur’an and the hadith reveals that all the related texts emphasize on the marja’iyyah of the Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.), and although there may be...
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