A landmark report by the Centre for Media Monitoring analysing over 48,000 online articles and 5,500 broadcast clips, has revealed almost 60% of online media articles and 47% of television clips associate Muslims and/or...
Read More »Shi’ism and Khilafah by Ayatollah Milani
According to my understanding, Shīʻah is an Arabic word for group. No such group apparently existed prior to the institution of the caliphate – khalafah – and it was only instituted to oppose Abu Bakr Siddique the...
Read More »Challenges of Islamism among Shias in Kashmir
Kashmir has been in the news for atrocities of the Indian state and violence against its Muslim population for a while now. Studies suggest that the Kashmir question is a perplexing issue that needs the attention of activists of...
Read More »A Review of the Book ‘Man Lā Yaḥḍaruh al-Faqīh’ by Shaykh Al-Saduq
This work is included in the four major books of the traditions of Shi'ite Islam. Despite the fact that many of his other works are extremely important, this book must be regarded as his...
Read More »Call for Papers: What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage
The Manchester Metropolitan University will host a conference next year entitled "What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c.300-1600”....
Read More »Book: The Shīʻā and Islamic Disciplines
Praise be to Allah for opening the gates of knowledge for us to establish the Islamic sciences and single us out as the Imamiyyah Shīʻā, a praise by which we precede those who take precedence in attaining His pleasure. Blessings and peace be on the most excellent and outstanding of …
Read More »The Holy Qur’an and Modern Scientific Discoveries
But sometimes in order to reach this goal, the Holy Qur’an indicates some of the natural sciences and the secrets of creation, in particular, in its lessons on unity; it removes the veil over the secrets of the world of creation and it...
Read More »The Islamic System of Judiciary in the Qur’an
There are a number of noble Qur'anic verses which deal com¬prehensively with the `system of the judiciary', and which we must examine closely...
Read More »The Status of Mothers in Islam
In glorifying the position of a mother, Islam has not confined itself to advice, injunctions and a series of verbal counsels, but as a legislator, it has also regarded the command and prohibition by a mother as...
Read More »Why Do the Shīʻahs Combine Prayers?
The Shīʻahs acknowledge the five obligatory daily prayers. However, they frequently combine the Zuhr and ‘Asr prayers by offering them consecutively during the time period defined by the start of Zuhr and the end of....
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