Sociability & Relations

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei issued a message to participants attending the 54nd conference of the Islamic Union Association for...

The history of Islam in China is complicated by the existence of many Muslim ethnicities. Some have been there since the beginning of Islam itself; some settled as...

The terms 'mujtahid' and 'ijtihad' are nowadays among those which have acquired great currency, even sanctity, among the Shi'ah. One would be surprised to know...

In this essay, the writer will pursue an alternative strategy towards reconstructing the history of taqlid within the early...

This morning, at the beginning of the first session of his Kharij al-fiqh class in A’zam mosque of Qom, Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi expressed his gratitude to God for the opportunity of holding the...

Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has prayed for the speedy recovery of Iraq's prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali...

Praises to God, an hour ago, Ayatollah Sistani had a successful operation and was transferred to recovery room or the ICU after...

The office of Grand Ayatollah Sistani announced that he had a break in his leg last night and will undergo surgery today...

Thousands of Pakistani people staged a rally in Lahore on Saturday afternoon to protest against the US killing of...