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(This is) an account of the Imam after the Commander of the faithful, peace be on him, the date of his birth, the evidence for his Imamates the period of his succession, the time of his death, and the place of his...

Ayatollah Khamenei expressed his condolences on the demise of the spiritual scholar and traveler on the path of monotheism, Ayatollah Hasanzadah Amoli....

Ayatollah Allamah Ḥasan Ḥasanzāda Āmolī, a philosopher, mystic, theologian, mujtahid, astronomer, and a teacher of religious and Islamic seminary disciplines, passed away at the age...

The events surrounding the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) remain controversial among scholars, historians, and lovers of Imam Husayn...

Social justice has always been a concern for human beings. This is probably because human beings have realized from the beginning that justice is the key to overcome and resolve many of the...

Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, one of the Shia authorities in Najaf, died today, Friday, at the age of 87, due to cardiac arrest in one of the...

Intolerance feeds on ignorance, while tolerance thrives on knowledge. When one knows through revelation that religious diversity is divinely willed, such knowledge inspires tolerance as a spiritual, and not just an...

According to jurisprudential and historical studies, blood money is an economical matter. It has been legislated in order to compensate for the loss incurred by the injured. From another point of...

This documentary explores the early life of Hussain ibn Ali, the moral and political struggle he faced against Yazid, the tragic events of Ashura as well as the aftermath and Hussain's legacy 13 centuries later....

This book deals with the minority group called Shiʻis, which today make up approximately fifteen percent of Muslims. While Iran has the single largest concentration of Shi is, our analysis will include Shiʻi communities in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, and the...