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Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...

These one hundred and fifty selections are taken from lectures that were given by ayatollah Makrem Shirazi at the Imam Hussain (as) Mosque in...

In this booklet, our purpose is not to discuss about all sources of income of Islamic Bayt Al-Mal and costs and usages, but we only want to talk about...

This text which is authored by Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaykh Nasir Makarim Shirazi, sheds light on how life would look under the grace of ethics.The topics of morality and ethics...

his book is a collection of speeches that Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi delivered in the month of Ramadan. There are five main chapters in this book: Birth of the new moon. The charity...

Shia Muslims agree that temporary marriage is permissible according to Jafari fiqh, while Sunni Muslims equate temporary marriage with prostitution...

In this study, the Karbala Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to...

Anyone who ever takes the intellectual history of religion seriously is bound to deal with the notion of originality either directly or obliquely. And perhaps more than any other religion, the originality of Islam, of...

The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...

Allama Amini is most famous for his research project al-Ghadir which offers an in-depth analysis of the appointment of Imam Ali at Ghadir Khumm and the...