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Nowruz is the traditional Iranian festival of spring which starts at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, commencing the start of the spring. It is considered as the start of the New Year among Iranians. The name comes from Avestan meaning “new day/daylight”. Noruz is celebrated March 20/21 each …

The European Research Council (ERC) project Visionis: Visuality in the Qur’an and Early Islam at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem directed by Dr. Hannelies Koloska is...

Despite the prevalent misconceptions, most particularly in western societies, the status of women in Islam is equal to men....

Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to...

In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in...

The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the...

An exchange of discussion that took place between the Muslim scholar, Imam Muhammad Jawad Chirri, and Dr. Wilson H. Guertin, that led Dr. Guertin to accept Islam. Wilson: The history of the Prophet informs us that at the age of forty, while he was worshipping on Mount Hira, the light …

Love is one of the most sublime and most appealing of concepts in Shi'ism in particular and Islamic culture and belief in general....

If you are a Muslim, read this book out of the obligation to acquire knowledge. If you are a Jew or Christian, read it for the same devout motive....

Copulating with women in this state, in addition to being revolting, also entails great harm and this is a fact that has also been corroborated by present-day medical studies....