Tag Archives: Nahj al-Balagha

What does Imam Ali (a) mean by the statement attributed to him in the Nahjul Balagha, which says: ‘Men are higher than women in terms of both intellect and...

The Institute for Sciences of Nahj al-Balagha affiliated with the shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a) unveiled the encyclopedia of Fiqh of Nahj al-Balagha ‘ala al-Madhahib al-Sab‘a in...

The purpose of this work is to investigate the manner in which the Qur’an and Sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature. It is a comprehensive study of all the female personalities mentioned in...

One of the most controversial Shiʻi texts today is a sermon in Nahj al-Balaghah (an early eleventh century collection of materials attributed to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib) describing women as deficient in faith and intellect. This is only one of several passages in Nahj al-Balaghah which come across as...