A student organization at the University of Illinois is hosting a week-long group of festivities on the Urbana-Champaign campus in order for students to learn about...
Read More »Call for Papers: International Journal of Islamic Architecture: Boundaries, Flows, and the Construction of Muslim Selves through Architecture
In this special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture it invites papers that bring critical perspectives to our understanding of the interrelation between the accumulated flows and the evolving concepts of boundary in predominantly Muslim societies, and within the global Muslim...
Read More »The Ruling on Snowmen, Dolls, Action Figures and Plasticine Modeling
In this writing, the permissibility of drawing as well as sculpting inanimate objects is presented, followed by the rulings of three marāji’, namely Ayatollah Sistani, Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Makarim, on sculpting models of animals or human beings. The ahkam corner aims to present rulings that many are either unaware …
Read More »Islam and the West – Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil
The concept of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is a fundamental aspect of Islam, and yet it is a controversial topic, particularly for Muslims living in the West...
Read More »New Media, an Opportunity to Propagate Islamic Teaching
This article will argue that new media creates more of an opportunity for Islamic communities to carry out propagation through more than what is known as...
Read More »Syrian Grand Mufti Argues Ulama to Don’t Preach Hate and Bigotry
Our Ulama of different schools of thought during their Friday Khutbah differentiate people on the basis of sects and this confuses and disturbs the common people. I urge these Ulama don’t preach hate and bigotry...
Read More »Imam Hussain, The Man Who Opposed the Founding Fathers of ISIS
The event of Karbala has both influenced and inspired our planet’s most prominent leaders and thinkers, resulting in figures such as Mahatma Ghandi saying “If India wants to be a successful country, it must follow in the footsteps of Imam Hussain” and it is with regard to Imam Hussain that …
Read More »Ashura Rituals Trapped in Cultural Baggage
For centuries religions have tried to make sense of the sufferings humans endure during the course of this worldly life. Illnesses, accidents, corporal pain and mental anguish are but a few of these conditions...
Read More »The Role of the Women of Ashura
In all the events that occurred before, during, and after the Day of Ashura, the role of the women was especially remarkable as they were exemplars in demonstrating how to resist against oppression. There were wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters in the camp of Imam Husayn who displayed love and...
Read More »Karbala Tragedy in the View of Christian Scholar
In a TV speech, Irish Christian scholar Chris Hewer talks about the lessons all human beings can get from the events of Karbala and Imam Hussein (AS) uprising against the tyranny of Yazid...
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