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This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of Central Asia to Tanzania, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and...

Imam ‘Ali bin Abi Talib was the successor to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon them both. This is a collection of short quotations about him from a wide variety of notables belonging to other faiths, including academics, writers, philosophers, poets, politicians, and...

Nevertheless, the various dimensions of thought and character of the first Imam of the Shi’a have not been understood as much as they should, and most of the sources have confined themselves to providing just a historical review of...

The Journal of Philosophical Theological Research (JPTR) has called for papers for the subject of its special issue on "Comparative Philosophy of Religion"....

The important question that arises is whether there were actually eighty-five clashes and conflicts between the Prophet and his companions on the one hand and his enemies on the....

The present work adopts the descriptive method and cites numerous verses of the Old Testament and the Quran to present women’s social status in the course of the society according to religious rulings and doctrines under the notions of human dignity and...

This paper examines religious violence among Muslims against women - as a case study of Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979....

Bryan S. Turner, in this book, argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events – the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump – leading to western intellectuals and...

In Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi‘i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran, Maryam Moazzen offers the first systematic examination of Shi‘i educational institution and practices by exploring the ways in which religious knowledge was produced, authenticated, and transmitted in the...

In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: January 31, 2023)....