What follows is an interview with Dina Soaring who decided to wear hijab when she was fifteen. The questions are as follows: Is there really an Islamophobia in America? Is Hijab an obligation? Why did you...
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Sadiq al-Ghariani has urged Muslims to abstain from traveling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage more than once, saying the kingdom uses Hajj revenues to commit crimes against...
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Even when our mother expressed discomfort, if he had an answer, he would not say. He would not respond with anger or sadness at all to the state of sadness from his family, and in most cases he showed no...
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A delegation of expert doctors and consultants led by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) have completed an initial investigation of Sheikh Zakzaky and Mallima Zeenah. Both have been held in illegal detention since the end of 2015. This initial investigation has highlighted the need for urgent investigations into their …
Read More »Call for Papers: Ijtihad and Taqlid in Sunni and Shia Islam
The relationship between taqlīd and ijtihād is complex. The purpose of this issue of Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies is to study the two approaches in greater depth, in the light of the Islamic heritage....
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Although others willing to pay three times the price to turn the church into a bar, it was sold to a Muslim group for much less money so God could still be worshiped in a House of God...
Read More »Who Are 37 People which Executed by Saudi Regime?
A Shia academic, a disabled protester and a number of detained minors were among 37 people that Saudi Arabia executed in its recent mass execution on...
Read More »The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in 1970s Egypt
In this article, Aaron Rock-Singer, traces the emergence of gender segregation within contemporary Salafism, focusing on Egypt as a case study to examine the interaction between textual hermeneutics, ideological cross-pollination and...
Read More »Moonsighting: Questions & Answers according to Ayatollah Sistani’s Islamic Law
This booklet which has been published by the Office of his Eminence Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani in Najaf in the form of queries and replies to them with some addition outlines this issue....
Read More »20 Books and Articles about Imam Mahdi (as) +PDFs
What follows are twenty books and articles about the life of Shia twelve Imam, the Imam of the Age, Hjjat Ibn al-Hassan al-Askari peace be upon him...
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