Sociability & Relations

Shi‘i commemorations exemplify a peculiar phenomenon among world religions: in Shi‘i Islam, one of the most important annual religious holidays is not a joyful celebration but a...

Through his book The Victors, Ayatollah Chamseddine provides a critical study of the individuals who came to support Imam Hussain in his movement against the...

In this event, the third in our four-part series on racism, we'll hear from people who have come to realize their role in maintaining racist attitudes and...

Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to...

Shi'ism Revisited moves beyond theoretical questions of reformation to address specific ways that Islamic law is being revisited by jurists....

The office of the Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a statement following the tragic explosion of Kucha Risaldar Mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan....

The Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (MJTILP) is announced the call for papers for its forthcoming Volume 18, 2022....

Fred M. Donner’s history of early Islam, Muhammad and the Believers, is a new, thought provoking work of the Early Islamic movement....

In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved....

This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal ...