Sociability & Relations

This book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco...

On November 16, 2018 the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), in Rome will be hosting a colloquium on the subject Rationality and the Mystical Tradition: Shia Muslim – Roman Catholic...

This article investigates the dynamics around the creation of transnational Shia communal spaces in north-west London, the public representation of Shia Muslim identities by networks and organizations based there to illustrate their multilocal connectivities and internal heterogeneity. Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as …

Fourth Islamic World in International Relations conference is addressed to scholars, researchers, experts and professionals interested in the broadly defined Islamic World stretching from the...

Iranians are holding mourning rituals nationwide to mark the anniversaries of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s passing as well as the martyrdom of his grandson, Imam Hassan (PBUH), the...

The time of the Imam, peace be on him, is famous for the debates and arguments which spread among the great figures of religions, of Islamic schools, and of others. Violent discussions took place among them on...

Last week, on the day of Arbaeen, thousands of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) supporters took part in a series of peaceful protests in the Nigerian capital Abuja to demand the release of their...

A group of Sunni scholars and seminary students paid a visit to the holy mausoleum of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, northeast Iran, a few days before the martyrdom anniversary of...

Justice, Peace and Prophet Muhammad AUTHOR(S): Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, PUBLISHER(S): North American Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities (NASIMCO) A short text on the topic of Islamic emphasis on justice and peace between peoples of differing backgrounds and religions, as seen through Qur’anic verses and the honorable treatment of his opponents by Prophet Muhammad. …

No pre-modern civilisation embraced more cultures than that of Islam ... [this fact] demonstrates the divine purpose that this Ishmaelite covenant is to bring a monotheism that uplifts, rather than devastates, cultures...