The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be....
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This text is the letter of Imām Khomeinī, The Great Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran To President Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader of the Soviet Union...
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I know that the office of Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf is not involved in family politics and the continuation of the institution of marjaiya is to some extent related to this fact that it should be away from...
Read More »Imam Hussain Belongs to Whole Humanity Not to Shia: Ayatollah Khamenei
We, the Shias, are proud to follow Imam Hussain, but Imam Hussein does not exclusively belong to us. Shias, Sunnis and all the people are under the patronage of Imam Hussain, ayatollah...
Read More »Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today
Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in...
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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...
Read More »Saudi Sunni Cleric Curses Who Ordered Killing of Imam Hussain (as)
A Sunni Saudi cleric and Imam of the Quba Mosque, on the outskirt of the holy city of Medina, says all Islamic sects consider Hussain ibn Ali (A.S.) as an Imam and a martyr and curses all those who killed the...
Read More »One Hundred and Fifty Life Lessons by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi +PDF
These one hundred and fifty selections are taken from lectures that were given by ayatollah Makrem Shirazi at the Imam Hussain (as) Mosque in...
Read More »Khums, the Fund of Independence of Bait Al-Mal+PDF
In this booklet, our purpose is not to discuss about all sources of income of Islamic Bayt Al-Mal and costs and usages, but we only want to talk about...
Read More »Life under the Grace of Ethics+PDF
This text which is authored by Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi, sheds light on how life would look under the grace of ethics.The topics of morality and ethics...
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