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The determination of the Islamic calendar can be a source of confusion—and often, such as when there are multiple dates for the beginning of Ramaḍān or for the two ʿĪds, it can be a cause of considerable frustration as well..

A mourning event was held at the shrine of Sayyidah Zeinab (AS) in Syria’s to pay tribute to Imam Khomeini (RA)...

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the `pillars' of the Islamic faith...

ICE to host Imam Khomeini and the Status of Women conference

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 …