The article "Cultural Adoption through Online Practices across Social Media Platforms: The Case of Saudi Women" reports ongoing qualitative research into Saudi women’s online practices across...
December, 2018
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1 December
In Picture: Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Modarres
Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Modarres was born in 1870 in a village near Ardestan, a city in Isfahan province. His had a poor but religiously devoted family...
November, 2018
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28 November
Early Muslims in America +PDF
When Islam first came into the United States, it surely comprised various ethnicities and minorities. It would be naïve to imagine Islam entered a land and it expressed no ethnic and...
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25 November
Photos: Muslims Celebrate Birth Anniversary of Prophet Muhammad
Muslims around the world celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) during the Islamic Unity Week festivities...
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24 November
Photos: Hawza Ilmiyya of Samarra Opens under Ayatollah Sistani’s Direction
Hawza Ilmiyya Ja’fariyyah of Samarra was originally a religious seminary founded by the late Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mirza Muhammad Hassan al-Hussaini al-Shirazi known as Mirza Shirazi in 1890 in...
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23 November
Movie: What’s the Fuss between Shias and Sunnis?
After the holy Prophet passed away the Muslims faced a dilemma, what do we do now? One group said after the Prophet we have to follow his successor –Imam Ali (P.B.U.H)- this is the principle of Shia school of thought. Another group claimed that...
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22 November
Agents Working to Separate Shia and Sunni: Ayatollah Khamenei +Video
Today -both among Sunnis and among Shias- there are some elements/hands that are working at separating Muslims from one another, if you trace these elements/hands, you will see that all of them are connected to espionage and intelligence services of the...
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19 November
The Teaching and Learning of Usul Al-Fiqh in Public Universities in Malaysia
This article attempts to portray the current scenario of studying usul al-fiqh in Malaysia particularly in the selected universities: University of Malaya (UM), National University of Malaysia (UKM), University of Islamic Sciences Malaysia (USIM), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and...
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19 November
Book: Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shi’i Jurisprudence
In this volume, two classical texts of legal theory (usul al-fiqh) are analysed. The authors of these works belonged to two schools of....
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14 November
Governing Islam Abroad: Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe
This book employs a comparative perspective that analyzes the foreign religious activities of the two home states with the largest diaspora populations in Europe: Turkey and Morocco...