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There are a number of noble Qur'anic verses which deal com¬prehensively with the `system of the judiciary', and which we must examine closely...

In glorifying the position of a mother, Islam has not confined itself to advice, injunctions and a series of verbal counsels, but as a legislator, it has also regarded the command and prohibition by a mother as...

ashf al-Murad is one of the most widely read of Allamah al-Hilli's publications as it is the first commentary written on Allamah al-Tusi's work. This part continues with discussions on the proofs for the Imamate of Ali, his superiority to the...

The book Makarim al-Akhlaq, by Shaykh Abu Nasr Hasan b. Fadl al-Tabarsi, a scholar in the sixth century A.H, is one of the most renowned works, which has become an important source of Islamic morality and...

This is a chapter on the responses to objections raised against Imamate from prominent scholar Allamah Hilli's Kashf al-Murad, expanded on from Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's...

Economic issues have always been of the main concerns of human beings and have had an important role in their lives. Governments study various effective ways to secure people's basic needs, and religious figures and institutions have always considered one of...

Sachedina is interested in theological issues related to Shiism and Sunnism, as well as subjects such as Islamic Biomedical Ethics, Islamic Law, Islam and Human Rights....

Though it is argued that media in developed countries is more professional than those of developing countries’ media; however, the western media, seemingly, biased towards Muslims and Islam....

This survey captures the attitudes and beliefs of religiously observant Shiites by surveying Iranians and Iraqis on pilgrimage to Karbala for the Shiite holy day of Arba’een. When we conducted this survey in the days leading up to and during the Arba’een celebrations of 2015, 22 million pilgrims reportedly participated in the...

This paper offers a study on the increasing digitization of Shiʿi Muslim rituals of Arbaʿin, observed on the fortieth day after the martyrdom of Husayn, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, at the battlefield of Karbala, Iraq; his shrine here is visited by....