Ayatollah Khamenei considered unity and solidarity as a requirement for the Islamic nation to play a significant role and achieve a high position in the new global power structure. “Islamic unity and having an influential presence in this new world is...
Read More »Unity of Muslim Ummah, It’s Need, Importance and Suggestions
No doubt unity and consensus has a miraculous role in developing a nation and achieving their higher goals. Muslim's unity is a major and undeniable problem of the time. The increasing sectarian ethnocentrism has spattered and blemished the fundamental Islamic...
Read More »Iran as the Flagbearer of Islamic Unity & Anti-Imperialism
Imam Khomeini, the architect of the Islamic Revolution, realized the need for Muslim unity back in the 1980s when he proposed the idea of ‘Hafta e Wahdat’ (Week of Unity) in the month of Rabiul Awwal to honor the memory of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)...
Read More »Harmony & Peaceful Co-existence between the Muslims according to Ayatollah Sistani’s View
Everyone who wishes for the advancement of Islam and the progress of Muslims should put their utmost effort in bringing them together and in reducing levels of tension that rise from some political leanings so that it does not lead to further division and...
Read More »Understanding Onslaught on Saudi Shiʻis
The Wahhabi ideology considers Shiʻism as innovation and justifies war against the Shiʻis and defends their persecution. Being official ideology of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Shiʻis of the country are on the wrong side and....
Read More »Arrogant Powers Is to Highlight Differences & Unreal Dividing Lines in the Islamic world
Ayatollah Khamenei said that the current policy of the Arrogant Powers is to highlight differences and unreal dividing lines in the Islamic world. He explained, “Inciting hostilities and scheming to instigate wars between Shi’a and Sunni, Arab and....
Read More »The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is and the Architecture of Coexistence
This study argues that despite the common identification of shrines as ‘Shi’i’ spaces, they have in fact always been unique places of pragmatic intersectarian exchange and shared piety, even - and perhaps especially - during periods of...
Read More »How Did ʻAllāmah Amīnī Turn the Book al-Ghadīr into an Issue for Islamic Unity?
Before Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the late martyr, Mortaḍā Motahharī wrote a detailed article about ʻAllāmahAmīnī’s book al-Ghadīrand proved that it’s a means for Islamic unity. ʻAllāmahAmīnī, the author of the great encyclopedia, al-Ghadīr, which was a turning point in the history of research on imāmate and the progress and development …
Read More »Contact with Sunni Scholars Should be Increased: Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi considered it necessary to establish communication between Shia and Sunni scholars and added: “If we have more contact with Sunni scholars, we can...
Read More »A Peacebuilding Tool for Muslims: Hajj
The Kaʻba is a place for the rest of hearts. This is a place where spiritual food is provided to starving and dying souls. It is a spiritual sanctuary for human society in this corrupted and stormy world full of...
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