All

This dissertation is a bio-bibliographical study of Twelver Shīʿism in southern Iraq in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries, a period that has been called the....

This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...

Muslim visitors from places like Malaysia and Indonesia are eager to try traditional Japanese food, but Islamic dietary requirements can make this difficult. A growing number of Japanese restaurants are beginning to accommodate these needs, though. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics fast approaching, Japan—in both the public and …

In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...

Bahrain's most prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim was admitted to one of the hospitals in Tehran, Iran to complete the...

Two-day workshop will be held on 23rd and 24th April 2019 at Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, The Netherlands...

This paper examines the new diasporic jurisprudence that has emerged within Shi'i juridical circles. Shi'i jurists (maraji‘) have responded to the needs of Shi‘i communities that live as minorities in the West by...

Brunel University London has become the first UK university to unveil a sports hijab for its Muslim sportswomen...

Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Ayatollah Muhammad Alvi Gorgani and Seminary Teachers of Qom has issued messages condemning the brutal murdering of a six-year-old boy in the holy city of...

The Nahj al-Balaghah Research Institute in cooperation with Saadi Foundation and International Association of Dialogue for Peace will host the two-day workshop on Man & Social Relations in Shia Tradition on the...