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The Muslim world has lost one of its brightest stars when, at 3:13 pm on Saturday, Safar 8, 1413 (August 8, 1992), Ayatollah al-Uzma (Grand or Supreme Ayatollah, the highest theological degree in Shi'a Islam) Abul-Qasim Khu’i died at...

A new scholarship is available for an exciting research project that investigates the transformation of Shii Islam in the Middle East and Europe since the 1950s. “Creating an alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam” is funded by a...

In the nineteenth century, the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala in Ottoman Iraq emerged as the most important Shi'i centres of learning. In a major contribution to the study of pre-modern Middle Eastern religious institutions, Meir Litvak analyses the...

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced distinguished Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Hussein al-Radhi to 13 years in prison as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on...

Mīrzā Habībullah Rashtī (b. 1234/1819 - d. 1312/1894), a famous Shi'a jurist (faqih) and marja' in Qajar period, was born in Amlash a village near Rasht, Iran...

Muḥammad Ḥosayn Gharawī Isfahānī (b.1296/1879 - d.1361/1942), known as Kumpānī, is a scholar of fiqh, usul (principles of fiqh) and a philosopher of 14th/20th century...

There are some rare photos of Ayatollah Sayyed Muḥammad Hādī Ḥussainī Mīlānī, a Shiite authority (marja’) in the 14th century A.H. (20th century), was born in Najaf in Muharram, 7, 1313 A.H. (June 30, 1895)...

There is some photos of Ayatollah Muhammad Waez-Zadeh Khorasani the founder of Islamic Madhahib University and first leader of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought...

'Abdollāh b. Muḥammad Ḥasan Māmaqānī or Mamaqāni (b. 1290/1873 - d. 1351/1933) is a Shi'a scholar in rijal of the 14th/20 century. He was one of the great scholars of Najaf and had many students, including Sayyid Shihab al-Din Mar'ashi Najafi. He has written some works, the most important of...

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī (b. 1180/1766 - d. 1242/1827) , known as al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Mujāhid and Ṣāḥib al-Manāhil; the author of al-Manahil, was a Shi'ite scholar of fiqh in the...