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Book: “Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence” By: Muhammad Baqir Sadr, Translated and with an introduction by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh This is an English translation of one of the most famous texts by the influential and charismatic Islamic activist, Martyr Sadr, who was executed by Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 1980. As-Sadr’s …

clergies should enter the arena of confronting falsehoods and wrong and deviant thoughts in a prepared and well-equipped manner.

Born and Upbringing  Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Bahjat Fomani was born in 1915 in a God-fearing family well known for its piety in the conservative city of Foman in the Gailan governorate. He was not yet sixteen months old when fate claimed his mother so he would taste the bitterness of …

Thesis: Faith in Finance, The Role of Zakat in International Development by Allison Dale Minor, B.A.

Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kulayni al-Razi (871-939). Al-Kulayni was born in Kulayn, a village  near Rey, in North of Iran. His father was Ya’qub al-Kulayni, who is buried at Rey. Theqat-ul Islam Kulayni received his early religious education in his native town and went to Rey for …

Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Babawaih al-Qummi  (917-991 ), referred to as Ibn Babawayh or Al-Shaykh al-Saduq (the truthful scholar) was a Persian Shi’te Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih, forms part of the The Four Books of the Shi’ite Hadith collection. Life The patronymic, Ibn …

The book “Dispensing Justice in Islam” is designed to serve as a sourcebook of Islamic legal practice and Qāḍī court records from the rise of Islam to modern times. This book is a series of ‘case studies’ in both senses of the term. Its strengths and weaknesses derive from either …

The dynamics of production and the supply chain and various rules and regulations prevalent in the global Halal Food market have been discussed at length in this research study. The global market for Halal Food has also been evaluated on the basis of the manufacturing chain of the products produced …

The 29th Tehran International Book Fair will be held on 4-14 May 2016 in a new Venue, Shahr-e Aftab International Exhibition. Average 2,500 domestic and 600 foreign publishers participate in the landmark event. The foreign publishers substantially offer their materials in English or Arabic however titles in French, German, Chinese, …

Since the foundation of the Wahhabi sect in the 18th DC it has shown extreme hostility towards Sunnis. The Saudi Arabian government likes to present itself as a protector and benefactor of Sunnism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Saudi Arabia is not a Sunni, but a Wahhabi state. …