This Article divides modern Shi'i thought into four categories and concludes as a general matter that at least three of those categories appear possibly compatible with liberalism, and a fourth almost appears to...
June, 2019
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23 June
What Is Salat (Prayer) +PDF
Salat (Prayer), this standing and bending down; This way of sitting and laying the forehead on the ground; Uttering words in...
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22 June
The First and the Largest Encyclopedia on the Fatwa of Holy Defense Published
Believing in the role of the Fatwa given by the highest religious Marja’iyah about defending Iraq, its people, and its sanctities and its coincidence with the fifth remembrance of its announcement, Al-Abbas (pbuh) Holy Shrine accomplished a War History Encyclopedia about the...
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20 June
Book: Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and...
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15 June
Why Ayatollah Bahjat’s Father Banned Him Attending Ayatollah Qazi’s Classes
When his father was told about the situation, he wrote a letter (toward his son) that I am not content to see you attend anyone’s class but Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Hassan Isfahani’s...
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15 June
Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qurʾān and the Genesis of Sharīʿa
In this article, I propose to put into the balance the various theories (including my own) that have been advanced about the Qurʾān as a...
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15 June
Prohibiting the Pilgrimage: Politics and Fiction in Mālikī Fatwās
This study inventories and analyzes Mālikī legal opinions (fatwās) discouraging or prohibiting the pilgrimage to Mecca (the ḥajj) for Muslims in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, North Africa, and West Africa) from the...
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12 June
Pics: Indian Protesters Demand Reconstruction of Jannat al-Baqee
People of India stage a demonstration demanding the reconstruction of the Jannat al-Baqee cemetery in Medina that was destroyed in 1925 by the government of Saudi Arabia and...
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11 June
Documentary: The Destruction of Jannat al-Baqee
on 8th Shawwal 1345 the mausoleums in Jannatul al-Baqi were demolished by King Ibn Saud. A documentary searching into the hatred against the family of the...
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10 June
Ayatollah Khomeini, AnjumanSharieShian and Aga Syed Hassan: A Case for Shi’i Movement in Kashmir
The resistance movement of Ayatollah Khomeini is off-spring of a massive Shi’i Usuli movement after its revival in Karbala. Kashmir is associated with Sufism when it comes to...