Today all Takfiri groups such as ISIS trace their intellectual origins back to Mohammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, following his doctrines they wantonly and notoriously kill innocent Muslims; in fact, they regard killing of Muslims as a...
January, 2024
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7 January
Islam and Blackness by Jonathan A.C. Brown
It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very scriptural foundations and its....
December, 2023
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31 December
Ph.D. Dissertation: The Envoys of the Hidden Imam+PDF
This Ph.D. Dissertation by Edmund Hayes seeks to answer why the doctrine of the Occultation of the Twelfth Imam was successful, among all the possible solutions to the crisis in the Imamate that were proposed in the first few years after the martyrdom of the...
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29 December
Book: Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: France
This volume of Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe covers France and consists of an...
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28 December
Article: The Najaf Ḥawzah Curriculum
Najaf has been the cradle of Shī῾ī learning for many centuries. According to Najaf tradition, it has been so ever since the prominent...
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12 December
How Educational Leaders Influence the Experiences of Muslim Students in Public Schools?
This qualitative study aimed to investigate how educational leaders influence the experiences of Muslim students in public schools....
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5 December
Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam
This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less studied poet, historian, and exegete al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015)....
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3 December
Article: Imāmī Theological Thought in the Early Seventh/Thirteenth Century
The present study discusses the scarce available data about Sālim b. Maḥfūẓ and the reception of his K. al-Minhāj, and it includes an editio princeps of the portion of the work that is preserved in MS Malik 1650....
November, 2023
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18 November
Tears to Heaven: Remembrance of Karbala in Kashmiri Marsiya (Elegy)
The paper traces the origin of the Kashmiri marsiya (elegy) and its role in enshrining the memory of Karbala in Kashmiri Shia community.....
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16 November
Caliphate and Imamate: An Anthology of Medieval Muslim Texts on Political Theology
This volume offers an engaging introduction to the diverse writings of influential scholars representing six classical Islamic schools of theology: Sunnism, Zaydism, Twelver Shiʿism, Muʿtazilism, Ibadism, and....