Muslim Scholars

He did not like to be known as a mystic and avoided the use of mystical words. He even did not allow us to take pictures of him. Once, a photographer came with an expensive camera and told me, "let me take a...

“It has been said famously that on my parents’ wedding night when my mother’s uncle encouraged the bride and the groom to hold each other’s hands together, my father – now although he was an Allameh – bent down and kissed my mother’s hand in...

The pictures of Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Tabatabaei and his student Martyr Mortaza Motahhari in a trip to Manchester, UK...

A detailed story of the life of Muhammad Shams Al-Din, known as Al-Shahid Al-Awwal Faqih Al-Sarbidaran. Al-Shahid Al-Awwal is counted among those...

Al-Sayyid Abūl-Makārim ʿIzz al-Dīn Ḥamza b. ʿAlī b. Zuhra al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥalabī, b. 511/1118 - d. 588/1189) famous as Ibn Zuhra was a Faqih, Usuli, Mutikallim, Nahwi, and one of the great Shi'a scholars of...

“O Ja’far! The twelver[1] ulama[2] have put a lot of effort into collecting Imams’ statements from around cities. They have also mentioned whether they are true, reliable or weak so that people of your kind can see the documentation of the religious law without effort and pronounce a decree,” Muhaqqiq …

Ayatollah Sheikh Morteza Ha’eri [God’s mercy upon him] (the son of Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri) attained to visit Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (peace be upon him) more than sixty times. In each time he composed some poemsin this regard in which he has indicated the year of his visitation. …

One of the students of Sheikh Morteza Ansari (RA) says, “One night, when I was in holy Najaf and was a student of Sheikh Ansari, I saw Satan in a dream while he was holding many ropes. I asked him, ‘what are these ropes for?’ He answered, ‘I entrap people …

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...

This path-breaking study on comparative public law confirms that the globalisation of debates about the relationship of law and religion allows today a profound, sensible re-assessment of plurality-conscious ‘justice as...