Tag Archives: Shi‘i studies

Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi‘ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that ‘Alī is the...

The Akhbārī School dominated the intellectual landscape of Imāmī Shiʿism between the Seventeenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Its principal doctrines involved a reliance on scripture (primarily the sayings or akhbār of the Shiʿite Imams) and a....

The Islamic College invites abstracts to be submitted for its seventh conference on Shi'i studies...

An Urdu translation of the book “History of Shīʻīsm (from the beginning to the end of the Minor Occultation)” was published in India....

Offering new perspectives on the relationship between Shi'is and Sufis in modern and pre-modern times, this book challenges the supposed opposition between these two esoteric traditions in Islam by exploring what could be...

The Islamic College of London invites scholars to submit abstracts for its sixth annual conference specialising in the field of...

Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI) will host one-day workshop titled Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern on...

what follows are some selected pictures of the International Congress on the Role of the Shi’a School in the Emergence and Development of Islamic Sciences which was closed on 11 May...

The International Congress on the Role of the Shi’a School in the Emergence and Development of Islamic Sciences was held with the participation of 120 thinkers form 50 different countries on...

The Islamic College (ICAS) in London staged a successful 4th Annual Shia Studies Conference this weekend, with a line up of leading international scholars. ..