Leader of the Islamic Revolution Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has commended the sacrifices and valor of Palestinians and their resistance in the face of the months-long Israeli aggression that resulted in a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and forced the regime to back down...
Read More »Three Key Lessons from the Life of Lady Zaynab (S)
With parents such as Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (p) and Sayyida Fatima (p) and grandparents such as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Lady Khadija (p), there is no doubt that the upbringing of Sayyida Zaynab (p) would be beyond exemplary....
Read More »Weaponizing Women’s Rights: How Imperialists Justify Invasions
From the British colonization of India to the French occupation of Algeria and the subsequent military occupation of Iraq by the United States, a Western power that inherited the legacies of the former two, a recurring pattern of using women's rights as a pretext to advance the goals of Western countries is clearly observable....
Read More »The Lessons Muslim Ruler Ought to Learn from Imam Ali (AS)
“People are of two groups. They are either your brothers in faith, or your equals in humanity.” These immortal words were expressed a millennium and four centuries ago to his governor of the then Christian-majority Egypt for full respect of human rights by the only person who ever established the administration of....
Read More »Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyūbids (1146-1260)
Focusing on the mosques, public assemblies, cemeteries and shrines of Syrian Muslims in the period of the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, the book describes and deciphers religious rites and experiences, liturgical calendars, spiritual leadership, and perceptions of impiety and dissent....
Read More »January 2025: Muslim American Heritage Month
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of New Jersey (CAIR-NJ) announces the celebration of Muslim Heritage Month throughout the month of January 2025. This important observance is a time to honor the rich cultural, historical, and social contributions of Muslims to the United States and to reflect on their impact....
Read More »Pope Calls Situation in Gaza ‘Shameful’
Pope Francis on Thursday stepped up his recent criticism of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave "very serious and shameful"....
Read More »Call for Papers: Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy
This symposium is organized by the Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium, whose leadership includes Samy Ayoub (UT Austin), Michael Broyde (Emory University), Chaim Saiman (Villanova University), and Rabea Benhalim (University of Colorado)....
Read More »Ethiopian Islamic Council Condemns Hijab Ban in Schools
The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council has stated that “no resolution has been reached” regarding the case of Muslim students in Axum, Tigray Regional State, who were barred from attending classes for wearing hijabs....
Read More »A Twelfth-Century Controversy on Mānkdīm’s Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-Uṣūl al-khamsa: Zaydis Debating Accidents, Attributes, and Optics
In this article, we present a so far unstudied epistolary exchange between two sixth/twelfth-century Zaydis from Yemen on Mānkdīm’s famous Taʿlīq Sharḥ al-Uṣūl al-khamsa. In the text, which survives in a unique manuscript, al-Ḥasan al-ʿUdharī raises objections against passages from the proof for the createdness of the world and from the...
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