Taqlid is among topics about which, one cannot give a general rule, but rather its goodness and badness differs due to conditions. It is sometimes admirable and...
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Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi Mousavi Khalkhali the prominent Shia scholars and the teacher of Hawza Ilmiyya of Mashhad, Iran passed away at the age of 95 in...
Read More »Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi Khalkhali Passes Away
Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi Mousavi Khalkhali the prominent Shia scholars and the teacher of Hawza Ilmiyya of Mashhad, Iran passed away at the age of 95 in holy city of...
Read More »A Review of Jesus Christ’s Moral Teachings by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
One of the purposes behind sending divine Messengers has been the teaching of moral values. This is because the ultimate goal of all the prophets has been the moral training of...
Read More »Book: Shining Sun: In Memory of ‘Allamah Tabataba’i
Shining Sun (a translation of Mihr-i Taban) is a tribute to the life and thought of the renowned Islamic scholar, Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i, written soon after his death by...
Read More »Book: The Study of Shi’i Islam: History, Theology and Law
The Study of Shi'i Islam presents papers originally delivered at the first international colloquium dedicated exclusively to Shi'i studies, held in 2010 at The Institute of...
Read More »Call for Papers: A Decade of Islamic Theology Looking Back and Ahead
The Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main convenes an international congress on "A Decade of Islamic Theology Looking Back and...
Read More »Book: Shia’ism In Sunni’ism (Shia Islam in Sunni Books)
The purpose of this book is to prove Imamate via Nass and mostly traditions narrated by the Sunnis and is organized in such a way to be helpful for...
Read More »Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet
Providing a thorough analysis of sayyids and sharifs from the ninth century to the present day, and from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indonesian Archipelago, this book will be of...
Read More »Abdulaziz Sachedina
Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Professor and IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto...
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