The purpose of this study is to take a brief overview at some of the jurisprudential differences between Shia‘s and Sunnis in matters such as Wudhu’ (ablution), Adhan (the call to prayer), prayer, Khums, Tawaf Al-Nisa, and...
Read More »For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century
The prominent Twelver Shiʿi scholar and poet, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn “al-Sharīf al-Raḍī” (d. 406 /1015), author of a monumental, partly preserved Qurʾān commentary in ten volumes, Ḥaqāʾiq al-taʾwīl fī mutashābih al-tanzīl, and compiler of...
Read More »The Excuse of ‘Freedom of Expression’ to not Condemn Insulting Prophet Is Unacceptable, Demagogic
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei condemned the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for the “unforgivable sin” of insulting the Great Prophet of Islam (PBUH)....
Read More »Imāmī Thought in Transition: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmissions
The subject of this three-volume publication is the transition of Imāmī thought and its literary legacy from the second half of the 10th century CE up until the contemporary period, using distinct, and at the...
Read More »Ayatollah Khamenei is Hussain of the Time: Sheikh Isa Qassim
Ayatollah Shaykh Isa Qassim, the Bahraini member of the supreme counsel of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) World Assembly called for support of Wilayat al-faqih and said that the Leader of the....
Read More »Call for Papers: Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism
The thematic issue of Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies is devoted: the Islamic theology of catastrophes at different periods of history, in ancient, modern and...
Read More »It Is only Islam that Has a Political Theology of Co-Existence with Non-Muslims
Of all the religions that I have studied it is only Islam that has a political theology of co-existence with those who are non-Muslims, said Abdulaziz Sachedina in...
Read More »Article: From Partial to Complete: Juristic Authority in Twelver Shi‘ism
This article will examine the foundations and evolution of this genre of authority and will argue that there was much disputation among the Shi‘i scholars as to the nature and...
Read More »The UAE Betrayed the Islamic World, Palestine: Ayatollah Khamenei
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyi d Ali Khamenei says the United Arab Emirates has betrayed the entire Muslim world by normalizing ties with the Israeli regime, but that the...
Read More »Article: The Image of Hussain Ibn Ali in Maqatil Literature
This research examines motifs such as the dream, the prophets, devils and angels, Jews and Christians, the weeping of nature over the death of Husayn, Husayn's thirst, his decapitated head, and the...
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