Sociability & Relations

Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shiite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in...

Ayatollah Mohammad Mo’men a member of Assembly of Experts of the Leadership and The Guardian Council of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran passed away at age 81 in...

The main argument of this article is that many of the works of the contemporary Islamic literature on the “jurisprudence of Muslim minorities” attempt to provide an Islamic foundation for...

Bahrain’s highest religious authority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim visited Imam khomeini's Holy Shrine in Tehran...

The second Annual Conference on ‘Islam, the West, and Radicalism’ will be held by The Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (Royal Holloway, University of London) and the Imam Sadr Foundation (Lebanon)....

International Union of Muslim Scholars accepts with sorrow the meeting of a large number of officials from Arab countries with the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu who occupy their Holy Land, kill their children, blockade their cities and...

Bahrain's most prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim was admitted to one of the hospitals in Tehran, Iran to complete the...

This paper examines the new diasporic jurisprudence that has emerged within Shi'i juridical circles. Shi'i jurists (maraji‘) have responded to the needs of Shi‘i communities that live as minorities in the West by...

Among infallible Imams (pbut) there is no one whose approach and behavior lead to disunity in the Islamic society. in other words, Her Holiness Fatimah Zahra (pbuh) and other infallible Imams(pbut), all have had an approach that can be a...

Lady Fāṭimah (peace be upon her) poses this question that, O people! How do you perform prayer, but you fear plots and tricks? How do you perform prayer, but you are silent about the....