Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This paper examines the period, under the aegis of the early Safavid shahs, when Mashhad was established as the preeminent Shiʻi pilgrimage center in Iran...
September, 2023
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19 September
God’s Emissaries: Adam to Jesus
The book presents a comprehensive theologically sound, captivating, and believable set of stories from Adam to Jesus. It portrays God’s prophets as the heroes they were, possessed of the most stellar of human traits, exemplary in every aspect of their....
August, 2023
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28 August
A Glance at Arbaeen Walk and Pilgrimage
This writing- addressing the eager Arba‘een pilgrims- while trying to inform pilgrims regarding the status and value of the Arba‘een Walk, also tries to acquaint them with their mission and that is to revere the name of the...
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18 August
Brief History of Shia Jurisprudence and Jurisprudents
Jurisprudence has a history of eleven hundred years, meaning that for eleven centuries, without a break
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17 August
The Role of Reason and Syllogism in Ijtihad
Some schools of fiqh which supported qiyas, especially the Hanafi school, believed in the role of reason in ijtihad....
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15 August
The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany
Rudolf Strothmann (b. 1877, d. 1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in....
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11 August
The Manḥāj of Fiqh al-Ḥadīth by Shaykh Ḥurr ʻĀmilī on the basis of Wasāʼil al-Shīʻa
The present paper is such a philosophical theological Inquiry by which an observation about the Manḥāj of Ahl al-Ḥadīth by Shaykh Hurr Ameli on the basis of Wasāʼil al-Shīʻa has been provided...
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10 August
Thesis: The Emergence and Development of the Shiʻite Ḥadīth Canon
This study is focused on the ʾithnā asharī or Twelver strand of Shiʿism, the predominant branch of orthodox Shiʿa Islam. Shiʿa Islam emerges as a distinct tradition centred on the understanding of the Prophet Muhammad and particular members of his progeny, known as the...
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9 August
Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: Marking Muharram, Mourning Husayn (AS)
By closely examining Twelver Shia’ public performance of Islam, this article offers a case study of an alternative narrative of Muslims in Britain and sheds new light on the rituals and experience of the Twelver Shia in...
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9 August
Al-Karkh: the Development of an Imāmī-Shīʿī Stronghold in Early Abbasid and Būyid Baghdad
From the point of view of the micro-history, this article investigates the incubation of the Imāmī-Shīʿī movement in this suburban area of the city, bringing together topography and social history data from medieval geography manuals, historical chronicles, local histories, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and...