Severe and tragic ordeals befell Imam Musa, peace be on him, who was similar to ‘Isa b. Maryam in fear of Allah, piety, and righteousness. That is because he ended the bloom of his life in dark prisons; he was veiled from his household and his followers and was deprived …
Read More »Call for Papers: Animals as Worshipers of God First of All: On Animal Piety in Islam
This International Symposium aims to consider the religious figure of the animal in Islam, neither as an object of worship (an idol) nor a means of worship (sacrificial offering), but rather as a fully-fledged subject, a...
Read More »Twenty Common Points between the Shī’ahs and Sunnīs about the Aʻlamīyah and Afḍalīyah of Imām ‘Alī (‘a)
Numerous ḥadīths with a common theme about the absolute superiority of the Commander of the Faithful (‘a) over all his predecessors and future generations -except the Messenger of Allāh (ṣ) – and his more Knowledgeability and...
Read More »How Did ʻAllāmah Amīnī Turn the Book al-Ghadīr into an Issue for Islamic Unity?
Before Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the late martyr, Mortaḍā Motahharī wrote a detailed article about ʻAllāmahAmīnī’s book al-Ghadīrand proved that it’s a means for Islamic unity. ʻAllāmahAmīnī, the author of the great encyclopedia, al-Ghadīr, which was a turning point in the history of research on imāmate and the progress and development …
Read More »Call for Contributors for Edited Volume: History of the Qur’ān: Critical Concepts
The aim of this edited volume is to bring together scholars working on the various approaches about the Quran....
Read More »The Formation of the Ja’farī Shi’a Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation
The history of the development of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic legal school has always fascinated me, all the more so when I continuously observed that existing academic works in the English language purporting to discuss the origins and development of the...
Read More »Religious Precept of Congregational Prayer in Masjid al-Ḥarām and Masjid al-Nabī
it is emphasized in our ḥadīths issued by Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) to pray in Masjid al-Ḥarām or Masjid al-Nabī with those who are not Shiites, to participate in their prayers and, to follow them in...
Read More »New Released: Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study
Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions....
Read More »The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic
In this book, Mashal Saif explores how contemporary 'ulama, the guardians of religious knowledge and law, engage with the world's most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan...
Read More »New Released: Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Brannon Wheeler uses both textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam. He provides a 'thick description' of...
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