Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
The Pure Life, by Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Modarresi is a most valuable contribution to the ever-urgent discussions surrounding sustainable food systems, personal and...
April, 2022
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6 April
Cultural Relations between Christianity and Shia Islam
The history of the Shi`ah and Christian cultural relations is comparatively old. Of these relations may be mentioned inter-religious dialogue in the area of Kalam that took place in a spirit of complete mutual...
March, 2022
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29 March
A History of Islam in Indonesia: Unity in Diversity
In this survey Carool Kersten presents the Islamisation of Indonesia from the first evidence of the acceptance of Islam by indigenous peoples in the late thirteenth century until the...
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19 March
Islamic Messianism: The Idea of Mahdi in Twelver Shi’ism
For more than a millenium the idea of the future coming of the Mandi has provided Shi'i piety with a unique aspiration in the redemption through the appearance of the twelfth Imam....
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17 March
Ḥadīth, the Shī‘a Cultural Memory
One of the specialized Ḥadīth domains in the recent orientalist studies is the investigation of the reasons and factors of the appearance and advent of the Shī‘a Ḥadīths and the reason behind the Shī‘a followers and scholars in...
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16 March
The Origins of the Shī’a: Identity, Ritual, and Sacred Space in Eighth-Century Kūfa
This book explores the birth and development of Shī'i identity. Through a critical analysis of legal texts, whose provenance has only recently been confirmed, the study shows....
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16 March
Twelver Shī‘ism and the Problem of the Hidden Imām
The disappearance of the twelfth Imām in 874 plunged the Twelvers (then Imāmīs) into a prolonged state of crisis.....
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16 March
The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam
The purpose of this study is twofold. Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, it purports to offer a new interpretive perspective for the analysis of the role of religion in political action and societal change in...
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15 March
The Literary-Religious Tradition among 7th/13th Century Yemenī Zaydīs: The Formation of the Imām al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim (d. 656/1258)
The sīra of the Imām al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh Abū Ṭayr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn (d. 656/1258) was composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Yaḥyā b. al-Qāsim al-Ḥamzī (d. 677/1278-9). The primary significance of the section of...
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15 March
The Origins and Early Development of Shi’a Islam
This book reconstructs the development of an Islamic ideal in the form of Shi'ism It traces the Shi'a response to this ideal, from its origins among a group of the Prophet's Companions until the...