International Journal of Latin American Religions invites articles presenting research results from various disciplines, geographies, and historical periods — from the “long” 16th century to today — dealing with the broad theme of....
Read More »An Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudential Sects
When the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) passed away, two factors caused this inheritance to be taken into consideration, a religious factor, and a social one. The religious factor was a sense of religious responsibility (sprung from the verse of nafar) to explain the Islamic rules for...
Read More »Geographical Distribution of Islamic Jurisprudential Sects
At that time the Muslims swore allegiance to Imām ‛Alī bin Abī Tālib (a) but Mu‛āwīyah bin Abī Sufyān refused to swear allegiance to him. Nobody followed him in this except the people of...
Read More »Children’s Responsibilities from the Islamic Point of View
The family, according to the Islamic concept, is not a mere means of satisfying animal instincts, nor is a family’s home merely an abode for sleep. In fact, it represents an educational environment for both spiritual sublimation and....
Read More »How Should We Talk to Our Children about Pornography?
No matter how much we bubble up our children, and put proxies or parental control software programs, we will still have big issues on our hand once our child is away from our...
Read More »Call for Papers: Animals as Worshipers of God First of All: On Animal Piety in Islam
This International Symposium aims to consider the religious figure of the animal in Islam, neither as an object of worship (an idol) nor a means of worship (sacrificial offering), but rather as a fully-fledged subject, a...
Read More »Call for Papers: Relating Science and Islam: Frameworks and Methodologies
The University of Chester is hosting a two-day online conference that aims to re-engage with the question of how Islam and science could, should and do relate to one another....
Read More »Islamophobia on the Rise in Germany
Rights group FAIR International, which has founded Germany’s first reporting center for attacks on mosques, has recorded nearly 840 such incidents since 2014....
Read More »What Do the Qur’an Says about the Hijab?
Islam has strongly emphasized the concept of decency and modesty in the interaction between members of the opposite sex. Dress code is part of that overall teaching. There are two verses in the Qur’an in which Almighty Allah talks about the issue of decency and hijab as defined earlier. The …
Read More »From Najaf to Qom: The Requirements for the Expansion of Shīʿah Islāmic Relations with the Christian World
Unfortunately, the Shīʿah Islāmic sect, unlike the non-Shīʿah sects, does not have effective and deep relations with Christianity, especially with the Vatican....
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