Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the entire Qur’an at the Mosque of the....
Read More »Call for Papers: Women and Islam: Agency in Francophone and Italophone Autobiography
The aim of this conference is to examine how these texts negotiate the misconceptions and prejudices affecting the lives of Muslim women in Europe with a specific focus on Italy and...
Read More »Muslims around the World Celebrate Eid al-Fitr
Millions of people in more than a dozen Muslim countries are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, marking the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan after the new moon of the lunar calendar month of Shawwal was sighted the....
Read More »Advance Announcement for Eid al-Fitr in North America
With respect to determining the day of Eid al-Fitr this year, based on the criteria for the visibility of the crescent, the Moon-Sighting Committee of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America would like to....
Read More »For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni–Shiʿa Cooperation in Norway
Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and...
Read More »Call for Papers: Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging
The Dutch Association for the Study of Religion has called for an international conference entitled "Religion on the Motion: Between Borders and Belonging" on issues related to...
Read More »Sunni–Shi‘a Relations in Europe, Framing an Emerging Field of Research
This article outlines the potential to contribute to the scholarship on sectarianism and the literature on Muslims in Europe. While also previewing the five articles included in the special issue, it proposes a framework to unpack the diverse nature and complex shaping of...
Read More »Jerusalem/Al-Quds: Bond between Faiths or Bone of Contention?
Jerusalem is sacred to the three chief monotheistic religions but, historically speaking, the city first appears in Egyptian inscriptions as Urushalim – the city of...
Read More »Imam Ali, A Great Unique Man in the History of Islam
In this study, we aim to portray the magnificent personality of the great unique man of Islamic history by expressing a brief point of the virtues of...
Read More »The Lessons Muslim Ruler Ought to Learn from Imam Ali (AS)
“People are of two groups. They are either your brothers in faith, or your equals in humanity.” These immortal words were expressed a millennium and four centuries ago to his governor of the then Christian-majority Egypt for full respect of human rights by the only person who ever established the administration of....
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