Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority who was recently discharged from a hospital in London, left the British capital for Iraq and arrived in holy city of ....
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The Supreme Leader of the Iran Islamic revolution—Ayatollah Khamenei— issued a message, expressing condolences for the passing of the great faqih, the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council...
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Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi who lost his father in childhood followed his father in his career and became one of the special students of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir Sadr. It is said that his master had called him as a promising future for
Read More »Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Passes Away
Chairman of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, passed away at 70. The health condition of Ayatollah Shahroudi had turned worse on Sunday, and he was in the...
Read More »Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority+PDF
Throughout Shiʿi history, scholars (ʿulamāʾ) have been trying to answer the following question: in the absence of the Prophet and the Imams, how is sure knowledge (ʿilm) derived?...
Read More »In Picture: Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Modarres
Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan Modarres was born in 1870 in a village near Ardestan, a city in Isfahan province. His had a poor but religiously devoted family...
Read More »Call for Papers: Seminar on Ayatollah Khamenei’s Life, Works & Achievements
National Seminar “On the Life, Works & Achievements of Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei”, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be conducted on February 2-3, 2019 at Aiwan-e-Ghalib, New Delhi by Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind in...
Read More »The Marjaeya: A Candid Conversation by Sayyid Muhammad Saeed Al-Hakeem
The original publication of Marjaeya is the result of a candid discussion on matters pertaining to the Marjaeya from a series of question offered to...
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani’s Fatwa Refuted West’s Misconceptions of Islam: Robert Carter
British journalist Robert Carter confirmed that the Fatwa of Grand Ayatollah Sistani refuted the West’s misconceptions towards Islam and that the fatwa was issued for the Shias only, pointing out that the truth reveals the verdict was for...
Read More »17th Annual Conference of the Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America Held in US+Photos
The Council of Shia Muslim Scholars of North America holds a conference annually, that brings together scholars from across Canada and the United States. The topic of the 17th Annual Conference, held this year in the Washington DC metropolitan area, was “Ingenuity, Cooperation, and Mediation.” Clerics, preachers, and imams came …
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