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Dozens of religious leaders made a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming U.N. climate conference, while promising to do their own part to lead their faithful into more...

(This is) an account of the Imam after the Commander of the faithful, peace be on him, the date of his birth, the evidence for his Imamates the period of his succession, the time of his death, and the place of his...

Her birth, upbringing, and the events of her life led to what would be her fateful destiny in Karbala, Kufah, and Damascus. God has instilled a boundless potential within each human being to spread goodness and resist evil and corruption, and although every person is born with this basic nature, …

The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context....

On the 10th of Muharram in the year 61 in Hijri calendar and in desert called Karbala, Hussain ibn Ali (pbuh), the grandchild of Prophet of Islam (pbuh), was killed and his family members were sent into...

The X Islamic Legal Studies Conference convened by the International Society of Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) under the auspices of the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London will be...

Ayatollah Khamenei expressed his condolences on the demise of the spiritual scholar and traveler on the path of monotheism, Ayatollah Hasanzadah Amoli....

Ayatollah Allamah Ḥasan Ḥasanzāda Āmolī, a philosopher, mystic, theologian, mujtahid, astronomer, and a teacher of religious and Islamic seminary disciplines, passed away at the age...

This survey captures the attitudes and beliefs of religiously observant Shiites by surveying Iranians and Iraqis on pilgrimage to Karbala for the Shiite holy day of Arba’een. When we conducted this survey in the days leading up to and during the Arba’een celebrations of 2015, 22 million pilgrims reportedly participated in the...

This paper offers a study on the increasing digitization of Shiʿi Muslim rituals of Arbaʿin, observed on the fortieth day after the martyrdom of Husayn, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, at the battlefield of Karbala, Iraq; his shrine here is visited by....