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REVIEWING THE “OASE” (ORGANIZATION OF AHLULBAYT FOR SOCIAL-SUPPORT AND EDUCATION); Its Creeds, Its Activities, and a Different Color within Indonesian Shi’is | Musadad | Analisa: Journal of Social Science and Religion

Aghaie, Kamran Scot. “The Passion of ‘Ashura in Shiite Islam”. In Voices of Islam, Vol 2, Edited by Vincent J. Cornell, 110-124. London: Praeger. Alterman, John. B and Shireen Hunter. 2004. The Idea and Practice of Philanthropy in Muslim Contexts. Washington: CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies). Bantuanhukum.or.id. 2017.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Dr Sheila Canby – ‘Indians in Safavid Iran: the pictorial evidence’. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Indians appear in Persian painting long before the Safavid period (1501-1722), either as characters in illustrations of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi or Khamsa of Nizami or as unidentified labourers, elephant jockeys and the like. Over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Persian depiction of Indians expanded to include portraits and works in the Indian style.

German Sources on Safavid Persia – Mage Publishers

For this book, Willem Floor has selected and translated into English thirteen German sources reporting on events in Iran from 1580 to 1722. One of these sources has never been published before; four of them are complete books, while the others only have sections dealing with Iran.

Conflicting Worldviews: Shaykh Aḥmad al-Aḥsāʾī’s Risālat al-Rashtīyah and the Problematic of Akbarīan Mysticism

Since its earliest exposure to Iranian Sufis in the mid-seventh century, Ibn ʿArabī’s mysticism has been the subject of lively discussion and examination. It has also left its imprint on many intellectual tendencies, particularly Sufism, esotericism and ḥikmat discourse.

To do or not to do?: Internal discussions on holding the religious festivals of Shiite Islam in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown

With the global spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, all countries of the world, and consequently most of the world’s religions, faced new conditions and unforeseen problems. One of these issues has been the religious interpretation of the epidemic, the duties of the believers in these circumstances, and the holding of religious ceremonies during the pandemic.

See also:’“Social Distance” against “Closeness” Reconsidering the issue of closeness in the shiite Islam festivals under the covid-19 pandemic’

Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt: A Dutch Painter in Safavid Isfahan

Abstract In February 1617, Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt arrived in Persia accompanying Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652), a Roman noble. Sometime between 1618 and 1621 Van Hasselt entered the service of Shah ʿAbbas I (r. 1588-1629), for whom he worked as a painter until the death of the shah.

Gulfization of the Arab World

From projecting ideology and influence, to maintaining a notion of ‘Gulfness’ through the selective exclusion or inclusion of certain beliefs, cultures and peop…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Sectarianism in Pakistan: State, Society, and Regional Geopolitics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

With recent developments in Pakistan highlighting the dangers of sectarian violence and the potential for greater social cleavages emerging, this panel discussion will focus on the history and contemporary challenges facing Pakistan regarding sectarianism. Panelists will discuss the complex dynamics between Pakistani state and society, the diversity of cultural, ethnic, and religious identities and movements, and regional geopolitical and security dynamics which impact the country.

Issue Lessons from Occupy Diraz: The Role of Velayati Twelver Activism in the Bahraini Occupy Space Movement.

The paper shows how the Occupy Diraz movement founded on the ideals of radical Islam leads to the prefiguration of a radical Islamic protostate in a space it possesses and controls. The paper provides a rationale for criticism of Occupy Diraz for emphasising the possession of space and doctrinal aspect of ideology espoused by occupiers over an opportunity to expand on the principles of horizontality, embracing reform and principles of democracy.

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Document Details : Title: The Host of Ma’lathāyā Subtitle: A Contribution to the Study of the Imami Shiite Construction of Orthodoxiy Author(s): CAPEZZONE, Leonardo Journal: Journal Asiatique Volume: 306 Issue: 2 Date: 2018 Pages: 187-199 DOI: 10.2143/JA.306.2.3285611 Abstract : After the occultation of the twelfth Imam, within the Shiite communities – especially in Qumm and Baghdad – a critical attitude has begun, involving some aspects of the Gnostic teachings transmitted by the most intimate disciples of the sixth imam Ja’far al-Ṣādiq.