Sociability & Relations

Maqasid al-Shari'a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought looks at the effectiveness of Maqasid al-Shari'a - as understood as both a classical legal hermeneutical construct developed by premodern Islamic legal theoreticians...

One of the issues which is very important in hajj is the issue of amiability and fraternity. In various narrations issued by the Imams (greetings be upon them), it has been stressed that you should perform daily prayers in...

I had a meeting with the commandant of the navy of India after the dinner. This commandant was a Sikh (one of the religions in India) Lieutenant general who said, "I love Ayatollah Khamenei" and...

This article presents reflections from an ethnographic study of the meaning and perception of the marjaʿiyyah among Shiʿa lay Muslims in Kuwait...

In The Great Theft, Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars, argues that Islam is currently passing through a transformative period no less dramatic than the movements that swept through Europe during the...

This text is a detailed and well-referenced reply to the booklet “What is Shi’aism?” which has been printed in Nairobi and distributed throughout East Africa by the Wahhabis, in order to...

A Bollywood actress who starred in India's highest-grossing movie said she is quitting acting because it is incompatible with her Islamic faith...

According to the medical documents sent by the daughter of Shaykh Zakzaky, we are informed that he is in a dangerous situation caused by lead poisoning and also brain, neurological, eye and...

Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Ali Fadlullah, brother of religious authority ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlullah and the son of Ayatollah Abdul Raouf Fadlullah passed away at...

Whereabouts of Imam Ali’s (pbuh) tomb was hidden, it was unknown till Imam Sadid (pbuh) revealed it. Imam Sadiq had about 4000 students amongst which were some famous Shi’a scholars and also Sunni scholars like Abu Hanifa and...