The Rome Summer Seminars is a two-week program for graduate students, scholars and practitioners working at the crossroads of religion and global politics which is designed to draw on the unique religious and geopolitical resources of the city of....
Read More »The Fusion of the Gnostic and Politics in Life of Imam Khomeini by Hamid Algar
It is related that when teaching a class on ethical advancement at Qum in the 1930's, Imam Khomeini (R.A.) would always close his lectures with the following sentence from the Munajat-i Sha'ban, a litany unique in....
Read More »Webinar: Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
This international conference aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions....
Read More »Imam al-Sadiq’s (as) Opinions in Politics and Economics
Imam al-Sadiq (as), the most prominent scientific character in the human history, is well known for his intelligence and creativity, which we cannot find an end or a limit to...
Read More »Imam Sadiq’s (as) Opinions in Politics and Economics
Imam al-Sadiq (as), the most prominent scientific character in the human history, is well known for his intelligence and creativity, which we cannot find an end or a limit to...
Read More »Call for Book Chapters: “Islam and Politics in the 21st Century”
This book will address different perspectives on the future of political Islam in light of its failure to develop a genuine political ideology that reflect their criticism of nation-state and its secular...
Read More »Call for Papers: 5th Int’l Symposium on Politics and Society in the Islamic world
Continuing the academic cooperation from previous years, The Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University, The Department of Middle East and North Africa of the University of Lodz and The Department for European Islam Studies of the University of Warsaw organise the fifth international symposium that will be devoted to the social and political transformation in the...
Read More »Call for Papers: The Politics of Religion and Spirituality
The 35th Conference International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 July, 2019 under the title “The Politics of Religion and...
Read More »Imam Ali and Political Leadership +PDF
This text presents Imam Ali's policy in governmental, political, military, social, cultural, economical and judicial affairs in Islam. The book also...
Read More »Bankers and Politics: The Network of Shi‘i Moneychangers in 8-9 Century
The article argues that apart from exchanging currencies, some of these moneychangers acted as financial agents for the imams, collecting funds from their following, receiving donations on their behalf, and with the collected money regulating the internal affairs of the Kufan Shi‘i...
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