Dr. Rebecca Masterton embarks on a journey to discover the legend of Imam Hussain (pbuh) through the eyes of academia...
June, 2019
May, 2019
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8 May
Book: The Shia: Identity, Persecution, Horizons
The Shia: Identity. Persecution. Horizons is a penetrating historical account about Shia Muslims, enlightening us about their genesis, their struggles and most importantly their contribution to the...
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6 May
The 9th Int’l Course on Shiʻa Studies: the Status of the Seminary & Clergymen in Shiite Thought
Organized by the University of Religions and Denominations, the 9th International Intensive Course on Shiʻa Studies: the Status of the Seminary and Clergymen in Shiite Thought, endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to Shiʻa Islam and...
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5 May
Documentary: How the Khoja Community Became Twelver Imami Shiʻa
A journey like no other, we trace back how the khoja community became twelver Imami Shi'a. In this fascinating journey we look at the difficulties and obstacles which stood in their way and...
April, 2019
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19 April
Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries
This communication, Shiʻi Treasures in North American and European Libraries: A Zaydī Multitext Manuscript from the Glaser Collection, provides an expanded description of the contents of a Yemeni codex from the...
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13 April
Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: Marking Muharram, Mourning Husayn
Research on the Shia in Scotland and of their spaces of worship and gathering continues to be under represented in the research field of Muslims in Britain. According to the 2011 census, there are...
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9 April
A Minority with Diversity: The Shiʿi Community in America
This article will argue that divisions within the American Shiʿi community are often exacerbated by the establishment of ethnic institutions that act as cultural buffers...
March, 2019
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17 March
Prayer, Mosque, and Pilgrimage: Mapping Shī’ī Sectarian Identity in 2nd/8th Century Kūfa
Most studies on the emergence of Shīʿism privilege the role of theology and emphasize the importance of rival historical claims regarding Muḥam mad’s succession....
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6 March
Why Did Al-Demerdash Bin Zaki al-Aghili Convert to Shia?
Al-Demerdash al-Aghili is among the contemporary and official people guided to Shia religion. He was born in 1930 in Egypt in the middle region of Asyut, Aghal village in Hanafi, Sunnism family...
February, 2019
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26 February
Two Shi‘i Jurisprudential Methodologies to Address Medical and Bioethical Challenges
The legal-ethical dynamism in Islamic law which allows it to respond to the challenges of modernity is said to reside in the institution of ijtihād (independent legal thinking and hermeneutics). However, jurists like Mohsen Kadivar and Ayatollah Faḍlalla have argued that the “traditional ijtihād” paradigm has reached its limits of ...
