Sociability & Relations

A new group on campus of Pennsylvania State University invites students and faculty to participate in an event promoting understanding between Muslims and the...

Recognizing Islam’s position on the environment will help redefine a widely misunderstood and misjudged religion so that Muslims and non-Muslims can work together on tackling environmental issues here at the University of Texas at Austin and...

A student organization at the University of Illinois is hosting a week-long group of festivities on the Urbana-Champaign campus in order for students to learn about...

In this special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture it invites papers that bring critical perspectives to our understanding of the interrelation between the accumulated flows and the evolving concepts of boundary in predominantly Muslim societies, and within the global Muslim...

In this writing, the permissibility of drawing as well as sculpting inanimate objects is presented, followed by the rulings of three marāji’, namely Ayatollah Sistani, Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Makarim, on sculpting models of animals or human beings. The ahkam corner aims to present rulings that many are either unaware …

The concept of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is a fundamental aspect of Islam, and yet it is a controversial topic, particularly for Muslims living in the West...

This article will argue that new media creates more of an opportunity for Islamic communities to carry out propagation through more than what is known as...

Our Ulama of different schools of thought during their Friday Khutbah differentiate people on the basis of sects and this confuses and disturbs the common people. I urge these Ulama don’t preach hate and bigotry...

The event of Karbala has both influenced and inspired our planet’s most prominent leaders and thinkers, resulting in figures such as Mahatma Ghandi saying “If India wants to be a successful country, it must follow in the footsteps of Imam Hussain” and it is with regard to Imam Hussain that …

For centuries religions have tried to make sense of the sufferings humans endure during the course of this worldly life. Illnesses, accidents, corporal pain and mental anguish are but a few of these conditions...