This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East...
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Ayatollah Hossein Ali Nouri Hamedani, an Iranian Shīʻī Marjaʻ called on Islamic seminaries to strengthen their international relations....
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Head of the Iranian Islamic seminaries, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi met with Pope Francis in the Vatican and conveyed an oral message of the...
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The sociological study of the Shia theological seminary is a neglected task and I should immediately add that this is not a simple task. The present research is a pioneer in this field that try to explain some hidden aspects in the Shia theological schools...
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Applications for Al-Mahdi Institute full-time study (starting September each year), can be submitted from the 1st of June of each year...
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Hawza Ilmiyya Ja’fariyyah of Samarra was originally a religious seminary founded by the late Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mirza Muhammad Hassan al-Hussaini al-Shirazi known as Mirza Shirazi in 1890 in...
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The current volume is a translation of a series of article on the traditional system of Shia seminary sducation known as the hawza. After beginning with information about the hawza, the book begins by discussing the formative period of hawza in the early Islamic period and then traces the development of...
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The Dar al-ilm project was originally a religious seminary founded by the late Grand Ayatollah Khoei in 1973 in Najaf. The former Iraqi regime demolished the seminary in 1990 which is the basis of this new project that has been re-established on a land area of 3320m from the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (as)...
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