This article is devoted to the contemporary Shi'a Iranian religious scholar and thinker Moḥammad Mojtahed Shabestarī (b. 1936)...
December, 2019
November, 2019
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27 November
Call for Papers: Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies aims to publish studies reflecting the scientific and academic perspective which are related to Shi’ism that one of...
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5 November
Book: Shiʻi Islam, An Introduction
In this book, the writer hopes to shed light on the some of the questions that likely motivated a reader to pick it up in the first place: What are the differences between a Shiʻi and a Sunni Muslim? How did these differences develop over time in...
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5 November
Book: The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam
The writer discusses three key case studies - the revolt of Mukhtar b. Abi 'Ubayd, the life of the Twelver Shi'i Imam Musa al-Kazim and the rebellion and subsequent death of the Zaydi Shi'i Imam Yahya b. 'Abd Allah - in calling for...
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3 November
Call for Papers: Devotion (Walāya) and Shiʿi Islam
The Shiʿi Studies Group at the University of Chicago will host its 2020 annual symposium on the theme of walāya—the call of devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt that is at the core of...
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3 November
The Features of the Shi‘a from the Perspective of Imam al-Sadiq
In this article, Imam al-Sadiq, the sixth Shi‘a Imam, gives advice to his companion Abd-Allah ibn Jundab on the features of a true Shi‘a, some of which are those who know God, heed the hereafter, constantly engage in...
September, 2019
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17 September
In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and...
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12 September
Documentary: Imam Hussain in the Eyes of Academics
Dr. Rebecca Masterton embarks on a journey to discover the legend of Imam Hussain (pbuh) through the eyes of academia...
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7 September
Imam Hussain, the Mediator: A Structural Analysis of the Karbala Drama according to Abu Ja´far Muhammad b.Jarir al-Tabari
In this study, the Karbala Drama is regarded as a myth and the method used to analyze it is inspired by the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-Straussian structuralism has probably never before been applied to early Arabic material to...
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3 September
Book: The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
The essays within this volume, all written by leading scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and...
