Tag Archives: Shia Studies

This article explores the transnational contest over sacred authority in contemporary Shi’i Islam as it plays out between contemporary maraji’ (sources of emulation) and the...

Sociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. Its bearers first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a...

The national Shia students conference titled “Ma’rifa 2020: Self-Discovery and Imagination” will be held on February 28-29 in...

This conference invites papers on the topic of clergy-state relations in Twelver Shia Islam, from the post-ghayba period (ca. 941 CE) to...

The history of Shīʻism in Bahrain has long been a neglected area of academic  attention; partly  due to a lack  of  easily  accessible  sources...

In this book the writer draws on the history and theological underpinnings of Shi'i Islam to argue that in today's Iran, politi and religion are neither rigid nor in...

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in...

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...

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...

Despite appeals from human rights groups, activists are deeply concerned about the worsening levels of violence against Shias; murder and repression against the...