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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. …

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 …

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 …

The Université de Nantes is recruiting doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars for work on the project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150–1850)” (EuQu). There will be up to four doctoral and twelve post-doctoral positions available. This is an exciting opportunity for early career researchers to …

What follows in this brief booklet is a commentary of three specific chapters from the Noble Qur’an which speak about the spiritual greatness and significance of the only daughter of...

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....

One of the students of Sheikh Morteza Ansari (RA) says, “One night, when I was in holy Najaf and was a student of Sheikh Ansari, I saw Satan in a dream while he was holding many ropes. I asked him, ‘what are these ropes for?’ He answered, ‘I entrap people …

The Birth Anniversary of Lady Fatima al-Zahra (p.b.u.h) and World Muslim Women’s day was held in Küçükçekmece, Turkey...

Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur’an for drawing the two faiths together rather than...

This article has outlined, only very generally, how the jurisprudential tradition at once complicates the task of Islamic environmental ethics and intensifies its practical effectiveness...