Analysing two concepts of people’s role and the duties of religious democratic government from Imam Ali’s perspective is the aim of...
Read More »Imam Ali and Citizens’ Rights
The writer would present Imam Ali’s political theory as a variant of ‘welfare limited guardianship’, which embodies several innovations made by him in the history of....
Read More »Book: The Voice of Human Justice (Sautu’l ‘Adalati’l Insaniyah)
The present book is an English translation of Sautu'l `Adalati'l Insaniyah, the biography of Imam Ali, written in Arabic by George Jordac, a renowned Christian author of...
Read More »Did the Prophet Testify to His Own Prophethood and to the Mastership of Imam ʿAlī within the Adhān?
How did Prophet Muḥammad (P.B.U.H) himself enunciate the adhān? Did he testify to his own Prophethood and to the mastership (wilāyah) of Imam ʿAlī (P.B.U.H) within the...
Read More »Who Was Imam Ali (a.s)?
In the history and culture of the Islamic world, the name “Ali ibn Abi Talib” has always been brought next to the name of the Prophet....
Read More »Video: Famous French Scholar’s Views on Imam Ali (as)
The French writer, thinker, and philosopher Roger Garaudy talks with his student in famous French Sorbonne about Ali Ibn AbuTalib’s will....
Read More »Causes of Enmity with Imam Ali (as) in the Light of Nahj al-Balaghah
In this article an attempt has been made to probe the current of enmity with Imam 'Ali (as) and the different causes and motives behind it, by referring to the words of the Imam himself in the...
Read More »WiIaya of Imam Ali and its Theological-Juridical Implications for the Islamic Political Thought
This paper examines the Qur'anic origins of the concept of wilaya in light of its connection with the historical wilaya of Imam Ali...
Read More »What the Qur’an and the Sunna Say about Imam Ali’s Leadership
If the ḥadīth of Manzila, ḥadīth of Ghadīr and ḥadīth of Badʾ al-Daʿwa point to the political centrality of the Prophet’s Family, there are other traditions which demonstrate their centrality to Islamic thought after the...
Read More »Why Did Imam Ali Remain Silent for 25 Years?
Why did ʿAlī, the rightful successor to the Prophet, remain silent after the latter’s death and made no effort to press his rights? Why did he not awaken society from its...
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