Tag Archives: Shia Jurists

Ayatollah al-`Uzma al-Hajj Shaykh Lutfullah as-Safi, a renowned Faqhi, Scholar of Islam and one of the greatest thinkers of our time, was born in the year 1337 Hijri (1919) in the city of....

Iran’s prominent cleric, Ayatollah Lotfollah Saafi Golpayegani, has passed away at the age of 103 following a cardiac arrest at a hospital in the holy city of Qom....

Shia jurists have always paid special attention to scientific data when issuing ‘fiqh’ rules and there has never been a conflict between science and religion in Shi’ism as there has been in Christianity....

Fasting in the holy Shari’ah (jurisprudence) of Islam is equal to that with the intention of obeying God; a person does not eat or...

Sayyid Muhammad Ḥasan al-Shīrāzī, also known as Mīrzā al-Shīrāzī, whose piety and scholarship were revered far beyond the confines of the seminaries of...

In this article Nebil Hussain examines more than a dozen laws that classical Sunni and Twelver Shi‘i jurists characterized as specific to the Prophet’s progeny and...

If Imam Hassan (A.S) had as much followers as you have today, he would have risen up against the caliphate of his time. At first, he staged an uprising but when he learned that his followers had been bribed, he...

Did you know that Sayyid Sistani used to listen to Imam Khomeini speeches in secret during Saddam’s time...

Some Shia Jurists issued Fatwas (religious edict) in response to the Istifta (new inquiry) about questions regarding the fasting during the...

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir al-Shaftī is a Shiite mujtahid and scholar of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in the Qajari period. He was a prominent scholar of fiqh in his time, and one of the first faqihs who was known with the title "Hujjat al-Islam"...