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For the final conference of the Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) project we will focus on the rhetoric of....
Read More »Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of...
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Read More »A Short History of Lady Khadijah’s Life
According to a number of sources, Khadijah was born in 565 A.D. and died in 620, at the age of 55, but some historians say that she dies ten years later.....
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The three-day international conference pioneers in its focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān with Syriac Christianity. The event will bring together an...
Read More »Book: How to Pray a Good Prayer
Many benefits from praying have been mentioned in the traditions. If you ask mystics or scholars about how to reach heights in spiritual matters, they will emphasize...
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If we want to talk about Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr’s personality, we could very easily say that he was without any doubt a genius, without a doubt a personality who was...
Read More »Saudi Arabia Will Host a Million Pilgrims for this Year’s Hajj
Saudi Arabia has said it will allow one million people – from both inside and outside the country – to perform the Hajj this year compared with only a few thousand local pilgrims over the...
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