Relying on an ethnographic research conducted both in the UK and Iraq, this article explores issues of cultural and religious identities among London-based young British Iraqi Shiis. Using Stuart Hall’s notions of...
January, 2020
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18 January
Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus
From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (IIS), will host a conference on the...
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13 January
Shias Faced Poverty, Political Exclusion and Discrimination in 2019
Despite appeals from human rights groups, activists are deeply concerned about the worsening levels of violence against Shias; murder and repression against the...
December, 2019
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17 December
Call for Papers: The Sixth International Conference on Shi’i Studies 2020
The Islamic College of London invites scholars to submit abstracts for its sixth annual conference specialising in the field of...
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16 December
Book: The Study of Shi’i Islam: History, Theology and Law
The Study of Shi'i Islam presents papers originally delivered at the first international colloquium dedicated exclusively to Shi'i studies, held in 2010 at The Institute of...
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14 December
Book: Shia’ism In Sunni’ism (Shia Islam in Sunni Books)
The purpose of this book is to prove Imamate via Nass and mostly traditions narrated by the Sunnis and is organized in such a way to be helpful for...
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11 December
Article: Women in Imami Biographical Collections
Throughout Muslim history, biographical literature has been a medium through which scholars negotiated and articulated criteria for membership and authority in their respective religious communities...
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11 December
Book: Glad Tidings of Mustafa for the Shia of Murtaza
The book, The Glad Tidings of Mustafa for the Shia of Murtaz’a, boasts a collection of over five hundred and ninety narrations, whose sources are amongst the most widely-recognized and accepted narrators in the...
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9 December
Kenyan Shiite Community: A Socio-Historical Perspective
The shiite Muslim community in Kenya is an active religious minority which need to be studied due to their significant role in different aspects of social life in Kenya since the...
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8 December
History of Shi’a Muslims in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Historically the vast majority of Muslims in Dar es Salaam have tended to belong to either the Shi'a community or to one of the Sunni sufi brotherhoods (s. tariqa, pl. turuq), each assuming a dynamic role in...
