Yves Rossier said, "Very attractive exquisites and objects including handwritten Qur’ans and those ascribed to the handwriting of the Infallibles exist in the museums of Astan Quds Razavi that are ...
Shia Muslims who fled their Sampang Regency villages amid sectarian strife with the Sunni majority are still waiting to go home, despite a three-month-old peace deal with the Sunnis and last month's visit to the area by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.There has been no follow-up in efforts to return more than 200 Shia Muslims to Sampang from Sidoarjo, East Java, where they have stayed since being forced to leave Madura, advocates for ...
The Imams of the Household (A.S) did not receive the leadership of Islam,although, however, they never had any designs towards it. So they devoted themselves to educating the Muslims, and to instructing them as Allah had ordered. They remained with those who were faithful to them, and confided in them their secrets, took great pains to teach them all the religious commandments and instill in them religious knowledge,and showed them what is of ...
- An American Muslim said, "Attending at the Razavi Holy Shrine has created an indescribable calmness in me. When I am praying, I feel an increased sense of closeness to ...
An Italian young man converted to Islam at the Imam Ridha Holy Shrine (8th Shia Imam) and on the eve of holy month of Ramadan 2016.After years of research on Islam and getting familiar with Qur'an, Alessandro Juliani completed his understanding of this holy book and converted to Islam.This Italian young man choose Muhhammad as his new name. Regarding his conversion into Islam, he said, “I had heard about Islam a lot and all these ...
The families and supporters of missing Shia Muslims staged a demonstration outside Karachi Pres Club yesterday to protest against the enforced disappearance of their near and dear ones.
KARACHI, Pakistan (AhlulBayt News Agency) - The families and supporters of missing Shia Muslims staged a demonstration outside Karachi Pres Club yesterday to protest against the enforced disappearance of their near and dear ones.The wives, mothers and children ...
- Sheikh Abdullah al-Daqqaq, a prominent Bahraini Shi’a scholar, said that the Al Khalifah regime in Bahrain has been under the rule of Saudi Arabia for a long time and added that Saudi Arabia now faces many problems from several fronts and directions in regard to their actions in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.The representative of Ayatollah Isa Qassim in Iran referred to the recent events occurring in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and the victories ...
The History of Islamic-Christian Relations in Europe: Cultural Interaction Versus Political-Ideological Confrontation From the universal perspective of the history of civilizations, Europe displays a remarkable disparity in regard to the mutual cultural influences of the Muslim and the Christian world. The influence of European thinking on the Muslim world dates back to the beginning of the 19th century while Muslim civilization had made its ...
Edward Said: Orientalism Revisited (25 years later) Nine years ago I wrote an afterword for Orientalism which, in trying to clarify what I believed I had and had not said, stressed not only the many discussions that had opened up since my book appeared in 1978, but the ways in which a work about representations of "the orient" lent itself to increasing misinterpretation. That I find myself feeling more ironic than irritated about that very same ...
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen is associate professor of philosophy at the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute in Qom, Iran, and author of Islam and Religious Pluralism ...
"IMAM HUSSAIN DAY" public meeting in Junnar in Pune district of India, organized by youth organization. The gathering addressed the issues of the Sacrifice of Imam Hussain (A) and the holy Ahlul Bayt (A).
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - "IMAM HUSSAIN DAY" public meeting in Junnar in Pune district of India, organized by youth organization. The gathering addressed the issues of the Sacrifice of Imam Hussain (A) and the holy Ahlul Bayt (A).The meeting ...
According to Maw'ud monthly, as reported by the reporter of Rahavard Electronic Journal, Yemen has about 22 million population of which 30 percent are Zaidi Shiites, that is, about 5/6 million people. Previously, the statistics showed a higher percentage of Shia population in this country. During the period of Zaidis' government, they made up approximately 40% of the population. At present, however, only 4 or 5 percent of the Zaidi population is ...
- Kashmir's Anjuman Shari Shian President and senior leader Aga Syed Hasan who is under house arrest since July 8 has condemned police action on unarmed people throughout Kashmir during which about 45 protestors have fallen to the bullets of trigger happy force personnel.He said that the continuous curfew and restrictions on the movement has been taking heavy toll on the common people. “Delhi and its forces have started a war against ...
Different programs were held in all major cities of Pakistan including, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar to mark the auspicious occasion. Lovers of Imam Reza (A.S) in Pakistan belonging to both Sunni and Shia communities attended the ceremonies. Ulema and religious scholars in their speeches highlighted the character and virtues of Imam Reza (A.S). They urged Muslims to follow the teachings of Imam Reza (A.S) throughout ...
A forty-two-year-old Latino, Raphael, is a Los Angeles-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas where he attended his first Jehovah's Witness meeting at age six. He gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States. But he traded in his Bible for a Qur'an after having braved a visit to a local mosque.
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Arbaeen Procession held at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh city in Uttar Pradesh state, India 2015-1437Annual Arbaeen Procession 2015 Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh (U.P), India 3/December/2015The Arbaeen (40th Day) of Imam Hussain(a.s) and the Martyrs of Karbala was marked by mourning processions here in the Aligarh Muslim University at Aligarh. The university campus echoed with the chants of Labbaik ya Hussain ...
