Regarding to the great honor of the Holy Prophet's descendant (pbuh) among the believers and the importance of observing Islamic laws related to...
Read More »Without Fairness, Polygamy Is Forbidden: Al-Azhar’s Imam
Egypt’s leading imam drew criticism from other Sunni clerics for referring to polygamy as “an injustice to women and children” that the Quran restricts...
Read More »British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism
This book looks at how they are balancing expectations from traditional Islam imported from their ancestral homeland, expressions of Islam drawn from across the global Muslim community the Ummah and from Britain itself...
Read More »The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam
One-Day workshop on “The Legacy of Fatima: The Role of Women in Shia Islam” will be held in Woolf Institute Cambridge on March 4. This event will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss the role and legacy of Fatima in Shia Islam. Discussants and moderators include: Father Christopher Clohessy, …
Read More »Book: The Twelver Shiʻa as a Muslim Minority in India: Pulpit of Tears
This book considers the voice of an important Muslim minority through its sermons....
Read More »The Special Interfaith Program For Bibi Fatima Zahra (SA) to Be Held in London
The Special Interfaith Program for Bibi Fatema Zahra (SA) will be held in London on March 1. This ceremony will start at 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm at Hyderi Islamic Centre, 26 Estreham Road, Streatham, London, SW16 5PQ United Kingdom. Special International Guest Panel are Sayed Ammar Nakshawani, Father Christopher Clohessy …
Read More »The Congress of “Jurisprudential & Theology School of Shia” to Be Held in India
The congress of Shia jurisprudential and theological school would be held in 9th March in Lucknew and the Congress of Allameh Mir Hamid Hussain would be held in Iran. Today, February 26th, Hujjat al-Islam wal-muslimin[1]Mohammad Taqi Sobhani in a press conference with the presence of journalists stated, “The thought of …
Read More »I will Not Leave You Alone at the Day of Judgment: Imam Reza
Ayatollah Sheikh Morteza Ha’eri [God’s mercy upon him] (the son of Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri) attained to visit Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (peace be upon him) more than sixty times. In each time he composed some poemsin this regard in which he has indicated the year of his visitation. …
Read More »Sheikh Isa Qāssim Meets Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi in Qom +Photos
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qāsim, the leader of the Shi‘as of Bahrain, paid a visit to Ayatollah Makarem Shiraiz in his office and had a talk with this religious authority. In his meeting with Sheikh Isa Qāsim, G. A. Makarem Shirazi was given the latest news regarding the course of treatment …
Read More »Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” paradigm has reached its limits of …
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