Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in...
September, 2019
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17 September
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...
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16 September
One Hundred and Fifty Life Lessons by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi +PDF
These one hundred and fifty selections are taken from lectures that were given by ayatollah Makrem Shirazi at the Imam Hussain (as) Mosque in...
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16 September
Khums, the Fund of Independence of Bait Al-Mal+PDF
In this booklet, our purpose is not to discuss about all sources of income of Islamic Bayt Al-Mal and costs and usages, but we only want to talk about...
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16 September
Life under the Grace of Ethics+PDF
This text which is authored by Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi, sheds light on how life would look under the grace of ethics.The topics of morality and ethics...
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13 September
“They Will Ask You” by Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
his book is a collection of speeches that Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi delivered in the month of Ramadan. There are five main chapters in this book: Birth of the new moon. The charity...
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13 September
Temporary Marriage; The Overall Picture
Shia Muslims agree that temporary marriage is permissible according to Jafari fiqh, while Sunni Muslims equate temporary marriage with prostitution...
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3 September
Book: The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...
August, 2019
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31 August
Book: Devoted to The Truth: Allama Amini, The Author of al-Ghadir
Allama Amini is most famous for his research project al-Ghadir which offers an in-depth analysis of the appointment of Imam Ali at Ghadir Khumm and the...
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26 August
Book: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
This book puts forward a reinterpretation of early Islam as a movement strongly inflected with values of peacemaking that was reacting against the slaughter of the decades-long war and...