The German state of Berlin will allow Muslim teachers to wear headscarves, authorities confirmed on Wednesday....
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Please tell me what the penalty is for one who doesn’t intend to fast in the month of Ramadan according to the Ahlul-Bayt school of though. If a person for some reason (like fasting being hard, or the day being too long, or because of being busy with studying and...
Read More »Call for Papers: Love, Religion, and God
The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion will held a Biennial Conference titled ‘Love, Religion, and God’ on 31st August – 2nd September, 2023....
Read More »Call for Papers: Women in Religion: from Spiritual Leadership to Female Empowerment
The conference is to be held on 8th and 9th May 2023 at the Università degli Studi di Milano, via Festa del Perdono 7 - 20122 Milano, Italy...
Read More »Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries
This volume contains editions and commentaries of hitherto un-edited manuscripts from the various strands of the Shiʿite tradition of Islamic thought (Zaydi, Ismaʿili and...
Read More »A Comparison of Women’s Position in the Tasnim Exegesis of the Qur’an and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the 2030 Education Framework
This research has employed descriptive and text analysis methods as well as library and field research methods to do a comparative study on international documents and the articles of these...
Read More »What Legal Reference Do We Have for Nowruz?
There is a hadith from Imam Sadeq (as) in hadith sources regarding Nowruz which the popular vote has verified it to be reliable and therefore they have given the fatwa to the...
Read More »The Vatican Press Publishes the Text of Pope Francis’ Message to Ayatollah Sistani
Pope Francis sends a letter to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, spiritual leader of Iraqi Shiites in which he recalls their fruitful meeting two years ago during the papal visit to Iraq and encourages him to promote fraternity among believers as a concrete response to...
Read More »Call for Papers: Succession in Islamic Law
The conference addresses the role succession law played in Muslim communities in the past, how it unfolds today and what it implies for future generations...
Read More »Call for Application: Doctoral Scholarship on the Study of Imāmī Shīʿism
The Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) welcomes applications for the AMI Doctoral Scholarship to support talented students working on the study of Imāmī (Twelver) Shīʿism....
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