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One interpretation, according to Martyr Motahhari, is that when Imam Hussain (pbuh) was martyred, he was both protesting and at the same time encouraging what is right and forbidding what is...

Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani has called upon Muslim nations to join forces and stand up against Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and provide further support to the residents of the besieged Palestinian coastal sliver....

Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia examines the rise of young preachers of Arab descent (habaib) and their sermon groups in the region and shows how Islam and politics coexist, flourish, interlace, and strive in Indonesia in complex, pragmatic, and...

Recognizing and asserting the dynamism of Islamic philosophy, in both historical and lived forms, this conference seeks to explore its capacity to serve as a resource for thinking through and responding to modern concerns, to shape moral imagination, and to encourage innovative, embodied, or...

Why is there such a fervent desire for millions to flock to what would have been an otherwise unknown land and for millions to journey there by foot from all parts of...

The scholarly network Philosophy in the Modern Islamic World organizes the international conference “Philosophy, the Political, and Politics of Translation in the Modern Islamic World” in...

This conference brings together leading practitioners and international researchers in Muslim Chaplaincy Studies thereby creating a dialogue at the interface of research and reflective practice. Important current topics will be discussed and perspectives for the further contouring of the...

Al-Azhar, the world's leading Islamic Sunni institution, strongly condemned on Wednesday the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas' Political Bureau, in Tehran earlier Wednesday describing it as a “heinous crime committed by a treacherous occupying entity”....

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has warned the Israeli regime of a "harsh response" for the the assassination of Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh, saying it is the Islamic Republic's duty to avenge the blood of the...

The Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland College Park invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Islamic or Islamicate art and architecture (600-1500 CE)...