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 »10 Amazing Things to do in Laylat Al-Qadr
The biggest and the most spectacular spiritually uplifting nights of the year fall in the Holy month of Ramadan and they are known as the nights of Qadr. Although we may not be sure exactly which night is Laylatul Qadr, in which the entire Qur'an was revealed to the Holy...
Read More »Imam Ali and Citizens’ Rights
The main claim of this paper is that Imam Ali (599-661), the most revered religious scholar among Shiite Muslims, made the first explicit attempt to conceptualise rights in the history of...
Read More »“The Candle of Bayt al-Māl”, Ruholamin’s New Artwork Honors Imam Ali’s Martyrdom Anniversary
Iranian artist Hassan Ruholamin has commemorated the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) with his new canvas entitled “The Candle of Bayt al-Mal....
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