Tag Archives: Shia and Sunni

With this book the authors try to bridge the gap between Muslims by answering the most common questions that arise when Sunni and Shia debate. The answers provided have as resources the Holy Qur'an and tradition books of...

On behalf of the Shia Muslim Council of Southern California, in collaboration with Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Bayan Claremont College, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...

Malaysian author and scholar Sayyid Farid Alatas blamed the silent majority of Muslims in Malaysia for the existence of sectarianism and the oppression and harassment of Shia Muslims in the country...

Though there are important differences between Twelve-Imam Shi’aism and Sunnism on the level of the principles of the religion (usul al-din), on the level of the sharia and fiqh or jurisprudence there are surprisingly few places where...

In this paper, the writer initially discusses sectarian polemics in the eighth and ninth centuries as stated in Shi‘i and Sunni polemical and...

"Hussain (as) is alive" conference attended by many Shia and Sunni Muslims in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu State, India on...

As a step towards bridging gap between Shias and Sunnis and sending out a message of a common Muslim platform, director of Hajj and Pilgrimage Research Center of Iran offered Friday prayer with Sunnis at Lucknow mosque...

A joint meeting of Sunni and Shia scholars of Pakistan’s Balochistan province was held in the province’s capital, Quetta...

Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi issued statement in reaction to Saudi scholar challenging Shia clerics for a debate hoping that the move contributes to Islamic unity...

Ahmad Al-Tayyeb has urged more tolerance among different Islamic schools and doctrines, saying Shiite and Sunni people are brothers and the wings of Islam.