Fiqh & Socitey

The Prophet Muhammad was born in the city of Mecca, in Arabia, on a Friday, the 17th day of the lunar month of Rabi-I, in the year 570 CE into a noble family whose fathers and ancestors were amongst the chiefs of the Quraysh tribe, and the....

The Arbaeen Walk helps dispel many negative perceptions about Islam. Despite the underdevelopment of infrastructure in Muslim countries, often due to internal challenges and external interventions, the remarkable cooperation and solidarity among people during Arbaeen compensates for these shortcomings. Over twenty-three years ago, when the 9/11 attacks took place, Americans …

The convenors of this Autumn School, organised by the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) in collaboration with the University of Leiden, call for papers on all the diverse aspects of Shiism and sectarian relations....

This online conference will analyse how the Qur’ān is understood and practiced in different communities of the Turkic world, and how it shapes their relationships with other regions and countries....

The following reflection expresses the depth of the spiritual walk from Najaf to Karbala on Arbaʿīn. These personal expressions of sacrifice serve as crucial landmarks in a believer’s journey to...

This paper analyzes motivations and experiences of foot-pilgrims in their journey to Karbala(Iraq) during the Arbaeen pilgrimage. The study deploys an interpretivist paradigm consisting of a phenomenological approach and...

This study shall investigate foot-pilgrims on the Arbaeen pilgrimage that attracts 20 million people annually, making it the world's largest annual gathering in...

Tahera Qutbuddin’s meticulously researched critical edition based on the earliest 5th/11th-century manuscripts, with a lucid, annotated facing-page translation, brings to the modern reader the power and beauty of this influential text, and confirms the aptness of....

This article concludes with the Arabic text of Ziyarat Arba‘een with full English translation and a brief exposition on certain passages of this powerful and...

observes the teachings of Islam including those relating to prayer, hijab, self-reform, selflessness and moral etiquettes etc is the essential of Arbaeen pilgrimage .