Ijtihad Network Being Wise and Faithful Muslim in the Contemporary World
This program is intended for students and researchers who are interested in Islamic studies, Shi‘a studies, Iranian studies, eastern studies and...
Read More »Summer Courses on Shia Studies to Be Held in Qom
Al-Mahdi Institute Full-Time Study Opens Enrolment for 2019
Applications for Al-Mahdi Institute full-time study (starting September each year), can be submitted from the 1st of June of each year...
Read More »Female Personalities in the Qur’an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi’i Islam
The purpose of this work is to investigate the manner in which the Qur’an and Sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature. It is a comprehensive study of all the female personalities mentioned in...
Read More »The 10th International Conference on Economy & Society in Imam Ali’s Tradition
The 10th international conference of Sireh Alavi (behavioral style) with the approach of Imam Ali (PBUH), economy and society will be held at University of Lorestan, Iran on...
Read More »Call for papers: The Fifth International Conference on Shiʻi Studies
The Islamic College of London invites abstracts to be submitted for its fifth conference specialising in the flourishing field of Shi‘i studies. This conference will provide a broad platform for...
Read More »Was Imam Ali a Misogynist? The Portrayal of Women in Nahj al-Balaghah and Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays
One of the most controversial Shiʻi texts today is a sermon in Nahj al-Balaghah (an early eleventh century collection of materials attributed to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib) describing women as deficient in faith and intellect. This is only one of several passages in Nahj al-Balaghah which come across as...
Read More »Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority+PDF
Throughout Shiʿi history, scholars (ʿulamāʾ) have been trying to answer the following question: in the absence of the Prophet and the Imams, how is sure knowledge (ʿilm) derived?...
Read More »Shi’i Doctrine, Mu’tazili Theology: al-Sharif al-Murtada and Imami Discourse+PDF
In this book, the writer provides us with a rigorous, detailed account of aspects of the theological enterprise of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā (d. 1044), the famous Shiʿi theologian, littérateur, jurist, and....
Read More »Book: Sociology of Shiʿite Islam +PDF
In these collected essays writer has persistently developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the...
Read More »Roots of North Indian Shi’ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859
In this book, the writer, Juan Ricardo Irfan Cole has contributed significantly to our understanding both of Nawabi Awadh (Oudh) and also Twelver (isna Ashari) Shi’ism. His detailed study of the social and...
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