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Imam Musa Sadr, after attempts to help the reconstruction of Baqi cemetery in a meeting with the Saudi crown prince, wrote to prince again in 216 for reiterate this subject...

With respect to determining the day of Eid al-Fitr this year, based on the criteria for the visibility of the crescent, the Moon-Sighting Committee of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America would like to....

The biggest and the most spectacular spiritually uplifting nights of the year fall in the Holy month of Ramadan and they are known as the nights of Qadr. Although we may not be sure exactly which night is Laylatul Qadr, in which the entire Qur'an was revealed to the Holy...

The main claim of this paper is that Imam Ali (599-661), the most revered religious scholar among Shiite Muslims, made the first explicit attempt to conceptualise rights in the history of...

Iranian artist Hassan Ruholamin has commemorated the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali (AS) with his new canvas entitled “The Candle of Bayt al-Mal....

There is a hadith from Imam Sadeq (as) in hadith sources regarding Nowruz which the popular vote has verified it to be reliable and therefore they have given the fatwa to the...

The Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) welcomes applications for the AMI Doctoral Scholarship to support talented students working on the study of Imāmī (Twelver) Shīʿism....

It is mandatory to know the Imam of the time, that people are not helpless in the matter of discarding the obedience of the true Imam, that the one who dies without knowing the Imam of his time will die a death of...

The Studies of a researcher show that religious teachings can play an effective role in the mental and spiritual health of people, and neglecting them may lead to failing to answer many of man’s inner...

Muslims do not believe in the conciliatory Ijtihad that sets out to justify the legal reality of many cases of deviation.