The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the...
Read More »Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʿī School
The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a....
Read More »Confronting Ignorance Was the Most Important Slogan of the Prophet Mab’ath
Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, addressed the people in a live televised speech today (March 1, 2022) on the occasion of Eid al-Mab'ath, the day on which the...
Read More »The Universal Mission of Holy Prophet Muhammad (S)
An exchange of discussion that took place between the Muslim scholar, Imam Muhammad Jawad Chirri, and Dr. Wilson H. Guertin, that led Dr. Guertin to accept Islam. Wilson: The history of the Prophet informs us that at the age of forty, while he was worshipping on Mount Hira, the light …
Read More »Prophethood and the Prophet of Islam by Ibrahim Amini
This book discusses about general prophethood and particularly to the prophethood of The Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) and the description of his proclamation as well as a sketch of his character and...
Read More »Life of the Prophet Muhammad before Starting the Mission
This paper, was writen by S. Ahmad Rahnamaei, is an attempt to study some aspects of the Prophet Muhammad's life before his mission started....
Read More »Book: Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the “long” eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced. For the first time, these Islamicate objects were read, …
Read More »Justice and Peace, Mission of the Prophets Muhammad (S) by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi
According to Prophet Muhammad, we must foster the sense of justice within ourselves by creating harmony between our emotions of anger and greed on one the hand, and our reason and intellect on the other hand; between the physical dimension and the....
Read More »Dissertation: Pious Critique: Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī and the 11th Century Practice of Juristic Disputation (Munāẓara)
This dissertation examines the practice of legal disputations (munāẓara, pl. munāẓarāt, sometimes referred to as jadal or mujādala) among Muslim jurists of the 5th/11th century in Iraq and Persia. It does so by focusing on...
Read More »Millions of Pilgrimages March toward Kadhimiya to Mark Martyrdom Anniversary of Imam Musa al-Kadim
Black-clad pilgrims have marched in droves towards the holy city of Kadhimiya in northwestern Baghdad amid tightened security, as part of a weeklong procession to commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of the...
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