This book, published on the advice of His Eminence Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, provides a comprehensive list of traditions from the infallibles on Jihad al-nafs or the Struggle of the Self, and it serves as both a theoretical lesson and a practical manual for every wayfaring believer to implement....
Read More »Call for Applications: Lecturer at the Department of Religion at Princeton University
The Department of Religion at Princeton University has an occasional need for lecturers to teach for courses in areas such as Asian Religions, Islam, Religions of the Mediterranean, Religion & Philosophy, Religion, Ethics & Politics, and Religions in the Americas....
Read More »How Iranian luminary Allamah Tabataba’i Inspired French Orientalist Henry Corbin
Allameh Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i is widely regarded as one of the modern era's most celebrated and revered Islamic mystics and philosophers, a luminary whose intellectual brilliance has inspired generations....
Read More »Arrest Warrant not Enough, Netanyahu Must Me Executed: Ayatollah Khamenei
Leader of Iran Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has called for death sentence for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose arrest warrant has been issued by the ICC amid the regime’s genocide in Gaza and carnage in Lebanon...
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani Condemns Terrorist Attack in Pakistan
After the terrorist attack in the city of Parachinar, Pakistan, which killed innocent passengers, the office of the Grand Ayatollah Sistani issued a statement in which the Pakistani government demanded that the Pakistani government take appropriate measures in this regard....
Read More »A Third of Muslims Considers Leaving UK due to Rising Islamophobia
A third of Muslims in Britain say the recent far-right riots fueled by racist and Islamophobic attitudes have forced them to consider leaving the country, a survey says...
Read More »Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, institutions, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East...
Read More »Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance....
Read More »Call for Papers: Sensescapes of War and Ritual in the Early Modern Islamic World
This conference, convened by the SENSIS research project at Utrecht University, invites contributions that examine how sensory experiences both shaped and were shaped by religious transformation, mobility, and violence in this pivotal period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries....
Read More »Art Exhibition Opens in Tehran to Honors Martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah, Resistance Fighters
A group exhibition titled "Phoenix of Quds," commemorating the 40th day of the martyrdom of the leader of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, and honoring the martyrs of resistance, was inaugurated at the Abolfazl Aali Gallery of the Art Bureau in Tehran on Monday.....
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