120 thinkers form 50 different countries have participated in the International Congress on the Role of the Shi’a School in the Emergence and Development of Islamic Sciences which was closed on May 11.
What follows are some photos of the Congress:
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On 11 May 1917, the participants of the All-Russia Muslim Congress elected a woman, Mukhlisa Bubi, as a qāḍī (a Muslim judge) to the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Inner Russia and Siberia. Granting legal authority to a woman at a central religious institution was unprecedented in the Muslim world. This article explores how this...