The majority of the world’s Muslim population follows the Sunni branch of Islam, and approximately 10-15% of all Muslims follow the Shiite (Shi‘ite, Shi‘a, Shia) branch. Shiite populations constitute a majority in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan. There are also significant Shiite populations in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. Sunnis and Shiites share ...

after the iranian mashrooté revolution, the shiite political thought faced a new era of much attention, contemplation and explanation, when religious scholars embarked on a new research project to address the new situation. the most serious attempt to deal with the theoretical gap and crisis in islamic state was contributed by imam khomaini. in his theory of state, he conjoined the shiite princ...

the present article deals with the performing prostration or sajdah, on imam husain’s turbah, the clay obtained from karbala where imam husain (pbuh) attained his holiness’s martyrdom. in so doing, we first investigate the superiority of prostration on clay, found in islamic narrations and traditions from shiite and sunnite points of view. it is upon these traditions that we prove that prostrat...

restriction of option of meeting place to the sale contract is treated as incontrovertible in both shiite jurisprudence and iranian civil code in such a way that it is considered among necessities of shiite jurisprudence by some and a matter of consensus by others. however, malik and abu hanifa radically denied the prevailing opinion and shafi‘i had his own idea in this connection. since transa...

akhbārism is one of the most important shiite jurisprudential schools. it prevailed from the early eleventh century for about two hundred years as the mainstream in some jurisprudence arenas. in a number of jurisprudential books and jurisprudential principles, some jurists have been referred to as being akhbāri. despite the many studies that have been done in the field akhbārism, providing a co...