In Imāmī legal theory, the akhbār of the Imams form one of the material sources of law, alongside the...
Read More »Proving Prophecy, Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature as Part of the Scholarly Discourse on Prophecy in Islam
Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa literature that is centered on narratives from the Prophet Muḥammad’s life has most commonly been viewed, or even dismissed, as the product of popular veneration...
Read More »Call for Papers: Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia
The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infrastructures of...
Read More »What Legal Reference Do We Have for Nowruz?
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...
Read More »Prophet’s Marriage to ‘Āyisha, A Hadith that Become a Reason for Islamophobia
The subject of my thesis was the famous and controversial hadith about the Islamic prophet Muḥammad’s marriage to his wife ʿĀʾišah bt. ʾabī Bakr at a young age: according to the dominant version of the hadith, she was six or seven at the time of her marital engagement, and nine at the time of her....
Read More »Imam al-Riḍa’s (‘a) Esoteric Traditions: An Exposition of Selected Traditions from ‘Uyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā
In this treatise, ‘Allamah Hasan Mustafawi has selected 30 subjects (along with their supplementary topics) in relation to esoteric, intricate, and allegorical traditions (ahadith) from ‘Uyun Akhbar al-Rida by the...
Read More »Summer School on “Early Islam”
The summer school aims to provide students interested in Islamic studies with a glimpse into recent scholarship on the Qurʾān, Islam and the late antique society, and the early writings in...
Read More »The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View
Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Sayyid argues that the Quran and the Hadith—the two primary sources of...
Read More »The Pure Life: A Smart Guide for Food and Nutrition for a Healthy Lifestyle from the Quran and Hadith
The Pure Life, by Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi al-Modarresi is a most valuable contribution to the ever-urgent discussions surrounding sustainable food systems, personal and...
Read More »Ḥadīth, the Shī‘a Cultural Memory
One of the specialized Ḥadīth domains in the recent orientalist studies is the investigation of the reasons and factors of the appearance and advent of the Shī‘a Ḥadīths and the reason behind the Shī‘a followers and scholars in...
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