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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 …

The kidnapping, which is considered forced disappearance in legal terms, is one-time instance throughout history, Sadruddin Sadr said at a meeting commemorating the 40th anniversary of...

Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shia Muslims, was discharged from a hospital in London where he was receiving treatment...

Ayatollahs Bashir Najafi, Safi Golpayegani and Sayyid Mohammad Saeed Hakeem, the Shia prominent scholars, urge Pakistani Shias to participate in the upcoming election...

According to Islamic doctrines, acquiring religious knowledge and becoming familiar with the fundamentals of faith is everyone's obligatory duty. The Quran being the most important source of legislation calls on every individual to acquire knowledge as...

Ayatollah Isa Qassim's medical team have confirmed his need to undergo surgery, after performing medical tests. In a statement, they said, "Today, Tuesday, 10 July 2018, a specialised examination was performed for...

This paper addresses topics and reveals how Imam Musa Sadr foresaw, as early as the 1960s, the threats we are facing today. After touching on the concept of universalism, we will discuss how it...

We are far away from a conclusion about the philosophy of Imam Musa Sadr and the role he played as an intellectual within the global politics as to understand the character of his worldview and the nature of his political philosophy as well as...

Bahrain's prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim has been flown to the UK for medical treatment, marking an end to more than a year of house arrest...

Ayatollah Sayyid Hussein Tabatabaei Broujerdi, the great leader of Islam Shia sect, a great scholar of Islamic world of 20th century, was born in 1875 at the city of Boroujerd 400 kilometer south west of Tehran in Iran. His father was the late Seyed Ali Tabatabaiee, a Moslem Clergy of …