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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, the top Shia cleric of Iraq, has urged security forces and protesters to avoid violence, expressing sorrow over some sporadic unrest that has led to....
Read More »The Emergence of Modern Shi‘ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran+PDF
This book specifically focuses on the origins and early development of the modern Usuli movement, a period that roughly spans the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...
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Iraqi-based Shia marja’ Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani in a statement has offered his condolences over the passing of senior Shia cleric of Afghanistan, Ayatollah Sheikh...
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Read More »Fatwas of Shia Scholars on Following Sunni Prayer Leaders in Masjid al-Haram & Masjid an-Nabawi
In the Hadiths narrated from Shiite Imams, Shiite people have been strongly advised to say prayers together with non-Shiite Muslims in Masjid al-Ḥarām and Masjid an-Nabawi, to participate in Sunni Muslims’ prayers, and to follow their lead in saying prayers; these are the Hadiths narrated by Shiite Imams; this is …
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