Through his book The Victors, Ayatollah Chamseddine provides a critical study of the individuals who came to support Imam Hussain in his movement against the...
March, 2022
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5 March
Book: Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Iran
Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to...
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5 March
Shi’ism Revisited: Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary Times
Shi'ism Revisited moves beyond theoretical questions of reformation to address specific ways that Islamic law is being revisited by jurists....
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2 March
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved....
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2 March
Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period
This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal ...
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2 March
Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi
In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in...
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2 March
Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today
The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the...
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2 March
Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʿī School
The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a....
February, 2022
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28 February
Prophethood and the Prophet of Islam by Ibrahim Amini
This book discusses about general prophethood and particularly to the prophethood of The Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) and the description of his proclamation as well as a sketch of his character and...
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28 February
Life of the Prophet Muhammad before Starting the Mission
This paper, was writen by S. Ahmad Rahnamaei, is an attempt to study some aspects of the Prophet Muhammad's life before his mission started....