This study also highlights the mosque's significance as a primary medium for Fatimid propaganda (da’wa), aimed at disseminating Fatimid religious ideology throughout the Islamic world...
March, 2025
February, 2025
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26 February
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Among the first books to delve into the making of the modern Islamic state, For Love of the Prophet reveals both novel political ideals and new articulations of Islam as it is rethought through the lens of the nation...
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14 February
Explanation to the Belief of Mahdism in Shi’a Imamiya by Late Ayatollah Saafi
The author debates, discusses and corrects the book “Islamic Messianism” written by the respected scholar, Abdul Aziz Sachedina, which gives erroneous impression to readers of the Real and Right Islam which Shia’sm is, and enabling readers to analyse faith to...
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14 February
20 Books and Articles about Imam Mahdi (as) +PDFs
What follows are twenty books and articles about the life of Shia twelve Imam, the Imam of the Age, Hjjat Ibn al-Hassan al-Askari peace be upon him...
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13 February
Law and Piety in Medieval Islam
Using an array of sources including manuals of law, fatwa collections, chronicles and obituaries, the book shows what it meant to be a good Muslim in the medieval period and how Islamic law defined holy behavior.....
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5 February
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....
January, 2025
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20 January
European Muslims and the Qur’an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification
The research presented in this volume seeks to analyse Muslims’ practices of translating, interpreting and using the Qur’an as a sacred object and, thus, pursues three main research agendas....
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12 January
Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyūbids (1146-1260)
Focusing on the mosques, public assemblies, cemeteries and shrines of Syrian Muslims in the period of the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, the book describes and deciphers religious rites and experiences, liturgical calendars, spiritual leadership, and perceptions of impiety and dissent....
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5 January
A Twelfth-Century Controversy on Mānkdīm’s Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-Uṣūl al-khamsa: Zaydis Debating Accidents, Attributes, and Optics
In this article, we present a so far unstudied epistolary exchange between two sixth/twelfth-century Zaydis from Yemen on Mānkdīm’s famous Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-Uṣūl al-khamsa. In the text, which survives in a unique manuscript, al-Ḥasan al-ʿUdharī raises objections against passages from the proof for the createdness of the world and from the...
December, 2024
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25 December
Jesus through Shi’ite Narrations
Jesus Through the Qur’an and Shi’ite Narrations draws from various Islamic texts to provide a comprehensive selection of excerpts pertaining to the life and moral teachings of Jesus. Approaching Christ from an Islamic perspective, the book offers readers a rare opportunity to understand the significance of Jesus in....