Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur'an at academic institutions in the Muslim world, and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of...
December, 2019
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16 December
Iraqi Troops Meet the Grand Ayatollah Sistani +Video
The head of Iraqi WIA Association, Maqdam Rahim, in a televised interview revealed that he, along with seven other wounded of the country’s army, visited the Grand Ayatollah Sistani a few months ago on the...
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16 December
Book: The Study of Shi’i Islam: History, Theology and Law
The Study of Shi'i Islam presents papers originally delivered at the first international colloquium dedicated exclusively to Shi'i studies, held in 2010 at The Institute of...
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14 December
Book: Shia’ism In Sunni’ism (Shia Islam in Sunni Books)
The purpose of this book is to prove Imamate via Nass and mostly traditions narrated by the Sunnis and is organized in such a way to be helpful for...
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14 December
Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet
Providing a thorough analysis of sayyids and sharifs from the ninth century to the present day, and from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indonesian Archipelago, this book will be of...
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11 December
Shia Genocide: A Crisis in Pakistan
The right to practice religion is a universal one that extends to every inhabitant of the world. In Pakistan, however, this right is frequently violated, as religious minorities face social, political and economic marginalisation on a...
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11 December
Article: Women in Imami Biographical Collections
Throughout Muslim history, biographical literature has been a medium through which scholars negotiated and articulated criteria for membership and authority in their respective religious communities...
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11 December
Book: Glad Tidings of Mustafa for the Shia of Murtaza
The book, The Glad Tidings of Mustafa for the Shia of Murtaz’a, boasts a collection of over five hundred and ninety narrations, whose sources are amongst the most widely-recognized and accepted narrators in the...
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10 December
From Tyre to Tehran: Transnational Links Amongst Lebanese Shi‘a Clerical Families
The contemporary Western view of Lebanese Shi‘a transnational links generally focuses on the political relationship between Hizbullah and Iran. However, while Lebanon and...
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10 December
Shi’a Women’s Rituals in Northwest Pakistan: The Shortcomings and Significance of Resistance
Through their performances of mourning rites, Shi’a Mohajerin (emigrants from India) Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan practiced an oblique,undeclared contestation against their subordinate position in a...
