Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and...
Read More »A Report on 2019 Annual International Imam Khomeini Conference
The 2019 Annual International Imam Khomeini Conference, Organised by the Research Group of Anjuman e SharaieShian and Hawza Ilmiya Jamia Babul Ilm, was held in The Oriental College of...
Read More »Documentary: The Destruction of Jannat al-Baqee
on 8th Shawwal 1345 the mausoleums in Jannatul al-Baqi were demolished by King Ibn Saud. A documentary searching into the hatred against the family of the...
Read More »Call for Papers: Islamic Perspectives on Organ Donation after Death
A two-day workshop, hosted by Al-Mahdi Institute in conjunction with the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Research Centre at the University of Bedfordshire, hopes to facilitate multi-disciplinary scholarship dealing with...
Read More »Predicting the Eid al-Fitr according to Shia Maraji’
Certain factors are at play for sighting the crescent on the first night of the month. These factors include “the time when the sun and the moon sets”, “the interval between the setting of the two”, “the coordinates of the sun and the moon and also the difference between the angles of them which is down to the latitudinal as well as the directional difference of the moon and the sun”, “the percentage of...
Read More »Nearest Likelihood of Laylat al-Qadr according to Ayatollah Sistani’s View
The office of His Eminence Ayatollah Sistani announced a statement in order to answer a question about the determination or the closest likelihood of the Night of Qadr...
Read More »The Discrepancy in the Laylat al-Qadr between Shia and Sunni
Among the differences between the Shia and the Sunni are the time and the date of the Night of Qadr. They also differ about this fact that which night of the year it is...
Read More »Al-Azhar’s Fatwa on Women’s Freedom to Leave the House
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb, considered that a wife is not free to leave her house whenever she wants and it is not necessary to discuss about husband’s permission for...
Read More »He Never Told Me to Give Him a Glass of Water: Motahhari’s Wife
Shahid Motahari's wife says about his behavior: Most of the morning he made the tea and I do not remember him throughout all my life telling me to give him a glass of water...
Read More »Moonsighting: Questions & Answers according to Ayatollah Sistani’s Islamic Law
This booklet which has been published by the Office of his Eminence Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani in Najaf in the form of queries and replies to them with some addition outlines this issue....
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