This dissertation is a bio-bibliographical study of Twelver Shīʿism in southern Iraq in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries, a period that has been called the....
February, 2019
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17 February
Book: Shari’a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most...
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17 February
Book: Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
This book is very much work in progress and presents preliminary reflections on some contemporary challenges to...
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14 February
Book: Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State
In this book, Morgan Clarke offers an authoritative and dynamic account of how the sharia is invoked both with Lebanon's state legal system, as Muslim family law, and outside it, as a framework for an...
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13 February
Article: The Marja‘iyya and the Juristic Challenges of the Diaspora
This paper examines the new diasporic jurisprudence that has emerged within Shi'i juridical circles. Shi'i jurists (maraji‘) have responded to the needs of Shi‘i communities that live as minorities in the West by...
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12 February
Divorce Reform in Egypt and Morocco: Men and Women Navigating Rights and Duties
This essay focuses on recent divorce reforms in Egypt (2000) and Morocco (2004), with equal attention to the positions of men and women who end their marriages...
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6 February
Conversion to Twelver Shi’ism among American and Canadian Women
Little research has been done on Western women who convert to Shi‘i Islam. To fill this gap, this study was conducted on American and Canadian women who have converted to....
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5 February
Book: Women in Shiʿism: Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies
This book takes a more nuanced approach to that question by exploring how women are portrayed in hadith on ancient sacred narrative – the stories of the prophets. ...
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5 February
Video: Sheikh al-Zakzaky’s Speech on Imam Khomeini & Islamic Revolution
The Imam Khomeini actually came at the better time in History, just as Prophet (P.B.U.h) was reported to have said that I came in the best time of History....
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3 February
Photos: Sheikh Isa Qassim Visits Imam Riḍa’s Holy Shrine
On Sunday, the top cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, traveled from Najaf, Iraq to Mashhad, where he visited the holy shrine of Imam Ali Ibn Musa al-Riḍa (peace be upon him), the...