The book takes a detailed look at the cornerstone of society - the relationship between a man and a woman - throughout all the potential phases: the early years of marriage, marriage after children, and marriage after an...
Read More »Book: Prohibiting Takfir: Fatwas of Shi’i Scholars
This book comprises the religiously legal injunctions (fatawa) of grand maraji‘ al-taqlid and prominent Shi‘i religious scholars concerning the legal prohibition (hurmat) – according to the Qur’an and the hadith – of insulting revered Islamic figures and calling the People of...
Read More »From Attachment to a Sacred Figure to Loyalty to a Sacred Route: The Walking Pilgrimage of Arbaeen
The present article aims to discover the different social and psychological reasons for pilgrims’ feelings of attachment to Imam Hussein and to the...
Read More »Pilgrimage: Ziyara from the Viewpoint of the Holy Quran, Hadiths and Theological Discourses
On the occasion of Arbaeen pilgrimage, IRIC has published a booklet entitled “Pilgrimage: Ziyara from the Viewpoint of the Holy Quran, Hadiths and Theological Discourses” to be...
Read More »Book: Modern Hadith Studies: Continuing Debates and New Approaches
This book brings together western and Middle Eastern scholars to explore medieval and modern approaches to the study of Hadith...
Read More »Article: Ahkam Concerning the Ahl al-Bayt
In this article Nebil Hussain examines more than a dozen laws that classical Sunni and Twelver Shi‘i jurists characterized as specific to the Prophet’s progeny and...
Read More »For Sale to the Highest Bidder: A Precious Shiʿi Manuscript from the Early Eleventh Century
The prominent Twelver Shiʿi scholar and poet, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn “al-Sharīf al-Raḍī” (d. 406 /1015), author of a monumental, partly preserved Qurʾān commentary in ten volumes, Ḥaqāʾiq al-taʾwīl fī mutashābih al-tanzīl, and compiler of...
Read More »Imāmī Thought in Transition: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmissions
The subject of this three-volume publication is the transition of Imāmī thought and its literary legacy from the second half of the 10th century CE up until the contemporary period, using distinct, and at the...
Read More »Article: From Partial to Complete: Juristic Authority in Twelver Shi‘ism
This article will examine the foundations and evolution of this genre of authority and will argue that there was much disputation among the Shi‘i scholars as to the nature and...
Read More »Dating Versions of the Karbala Story +PDF
In this paper the writer will discuss the relative date of two important versions of the Karbala story related by Ṭabarī: one, relatively short and lacking in detail, is ascribed to Imam al-Bāqir (d. 114/732); the other, much longer and...
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