Shi’i children’s books participate in their readers’ formation by explaining and illustrating pious norms in terms of emotional attachments, rituals, and...
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The aim of this study is to understand how authenticity is evoked in a religious pilgrimage and the relationship between authenticity, rituals and...
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The purpose of this study is to cover the meaning and role of the Qur'an in Shiite jurisprudence. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, the history of the compilation of the...
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This paper analyses postmodern theory of education writings and illustrates some of the problems and alternatives in the realm of education, through and....
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Analysing two concepts of people’s role and the duties of religious democratic government from Imam Ali’s perspective is the aim of...
Read More »Imam Ali and Citizens’ Rights
The writer would present Imam Ali’s political theory as a variant of ‘welfare limited guardianship’, which embodies several innovations made by him in the history of....
Read More »Political Mobilization and the Shi’i Religious Establishment (marja’iyya)
This article attempts to clarify a number of issues pertaining to the actual attitudes and relationships between the marja'iyya and politics in Iraq.....
Read More »A Short History of Lady Khadijah’s Life
According to a number of sources, Khadijah was born in 565 A.D. and died in 620, at the age of 55, but some historians say that she dies ten years later.....
Read More »What do You Know about Islamic Economics?
A short text about the nature of the Islamic economic system, its distinction from Capitalism and Marxism, and the primary obstacles encountered in its application to...
Read More »Cultural Relations between Christianity and Shia Islam
The history of the Shi`ah and Christian cultural relations is comparatively old. Of these relations may be mentioned inter-religious dialogue in the area of Kalam that took place in a spirit of complete mutual...
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