According to Ayatollah Khamenei, what should people do when there is difference of opinion between a Marja and Wali Faqih.....
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Unfortunately, we may often see discrimination in our own communities among different ethnic and racial groups. This is even the case among varying ethnicities from within a single country. To deal with this situation, the foremost strategy at our...
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This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge...
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Few days ago, the president of Afghanistan established a New Dar-Al-fatwa (Religious Fatwa Issuance Center) aiming to have a specific address for issuance of religious fatwa in...
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Al-Azhar has condemned the recent demolition of dozens of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem by Israeli occupation forces, stressing that Palestine’s Islamic and Arab identity will never...
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This paper examines the phenomenon of marjaʿiyya, considers how one becomes a marjaʿ, and traces the rise of Sīstānī to the pre-eminent position that he now holds and juxtaposes his model of leadership with other modern Shiʿi models of...
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Regarding the magnificence and holiness of Baqi and visiting four Imams have been buried in this holy land, Ayatollah Wahid Khorasani said, It is better for the pilgrims of Baqi to visit there with bare feet...
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Nigerian security forces have killed at least eleven protesters who were demanding the immediate release of the senior Muslim figure Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, who has been locked up in a...
Read More »International Conference on Islamic Studies Today to Be Held in the UK
The international conference on Islamic Studies Today is for celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Journal of Islamic Studies...
Read More »Woman’s Identity and Rethinking the Hadith +PDF
This book is a first step in a comprehensive attempt to contrast Hadith with the Qur`an in order to uncover some of the unjust practices by Muslims concerning women and....
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