Fighting for Motherhood: The Case for Valuing One of the most Vital Members in Society, an article by Samira B. Zaidi Rizvi
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This article presents an endowment note as the only surviving material trace from the famous library of the Shiʿite scholar ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (589/1193–664/1266).....
Read More »Al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī: His Writings on Theology and Their Reception
Whereas most of the theological works by al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 436/1044) have been preserved and are now available in critical editions and have partly been studied, only some of the kalām writings by his most prominent student, the Shaykh al-ṭāʾifa Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067), are...
Read More »International Quds Day: Re-Emergence of a Unifying Social Order for the Ummah
Today, Quds Day has become an international phenomenon with marches and demonstrations held in many countries of the world....
Read More »Ayatollah Khomeini: From Islamic Government to Sovereign State
This paper argues that the mature form of the political doctrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–89), Iranian Shiite religious authority and architect of the Islamic Republic of Iran, grew out of an encounter with the modern understanding of the state and the concept of....
Read More »Contextualism in Ayatollāh Borūjerdī’s Jurisprudential Methodology
This article sheds light on the fiqhī methodology of Ayatollāh S. Hosain Tabātabāī Borūjerdī (1875-1961). According to the author, one of the most prominent features of his methodology is a....
Read More »Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Theory of Justice: Its Implications for Public Law and Contemporary Political Governance in Islam
By focusing on the concepts of "rationality" and "human will," which hold paramount importance in Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Muʿtazilī's theory, this article aims to provide a legal and positive interpretation of the elements of his....
Read More »An Ethnographic Exploration of Faith, Fashion, and Female Muslim Entrepreneurship in the United States
This study titled “From Marginal to Mainstream: An Ethnographic Exploration of Faith, Fashion, and Female Muslim Entrepreneurship in the United States” is about the intersectionality of the fields of faith, fashion, and....
Read More »Article: The Najaf Ḥawzah Curriculum
Najaf has been the cradle of Shī῾ī learning for many centuries. According to Najaf tradition, it has been so ever since the prominent...
Read More »How Educational Leaders Influence the Experiences of Muslim Students in Public Schools?
This qualitative study aimed to investigate how educational leaders influence the experiences of Muslim students in public schools....
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