The cultural assault rests on two bases: first, humiliating the original culture, and second, encouraging the successor foreign culture. Through this cultural withdrawal and disgracing the...
April, 2020
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15 April
Fasting, I’tekaf, Advent of Moon, Fitrah+PDF
This booklet consists of those issues which believers come across during the month of ramadhan and eid. They are presented beautifully...
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15 April
Wisdom Inherent in the Establishment of Daily Prayer
The book is covering a vast range of topics that affect modern man. It covers the social, political, family, economic and spiritual issues in Islam and addresses positive solutions...
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15 April
Training and Education in Islam
The present book is a collection [transcription] of all extant lectures by the martyred thinker, Professor Āyatullāh Murtaḍā Muṭahharī about training and education in Islam...
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12 April
A Comparative Study of Islamic Feminist and Traditional Shiʿi Approaches to Qurʾanic Exegesis
This paper, in its endeavours to first examine feminist hermeneutical approaches to Qurʾanic exegesis and to then compare them with traditional Shiʿi approaches, begins with an overview of the main concepts of contextualist theory...
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12 April
Use of Transmission Patterns in Contemporary Shiʿi Isnād Analysis
This paper examines how contemporary Shiʿi scholars of rijāl deal with problematic isnāds through engaging in a thorough examination of...
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12 April
Book Review: Shi‘ism and the Democratisation Process in Iran: With a focus on Wilayat al-Faqih
Shi‘ism and the Democratisation Process in Iran by Ibrahim Moussawi analyses wilayat al-faqih, or rule of the jurisprudent, and its application in the Islamic Republic of...
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5 April
Video: What is the Solution on Coronavirus Pandemic?
While the entire world deals with the pandemic of the corona virus, we witness a stark difference between the Islamic societies and the western-materialist societies. What is the ultimate solution of the problems that the...
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2 April
Article: The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period
The following discussion titled “The Legal Status of Science in the Muslim World in the Early Modern Period: An Initial Consideration of Fatwās From Three Maghribī Sources” examines the place that natural science (chiefly astronomy and medicine) occupied in three of the most important collections of legal opinions ( fatwa pl. fatawa) in the Muslim West during the late medieval and...
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2 April
Article: The Study of Shia Islam in Western Academia
This paper will examine the historical study of Shi͑ism in Western Academia. It will argue that until the last four decades, Western scholarship studied Shi͑i Islam primarily through a...