sometimes disagreement in regards to reading a qur’ānic verse has resulted in a paradoxical judgment and this occurs in traditions, as well. but the way in which one can consider paradoxical verses arises from the so-called ‘alājīyah traditions. the question that arises here is as follows: can the rules presented by these evidences be also extended to the paradoxical readings? if so, what are t...

the traditions transmitted from the infallible imams (a. s.) are one of the most important resources of jurisprudential rulings. there are some conditions for any tradition to be accepted and islamic scholars have identified several ways for investigating that whither the conditions are met in a given tradition or not. some of these conditions are related to the narrators of a tradition, such a...

one of the recent inquiries in the field of hadith studies is the investigation of transferred traditions and their causes and impacts on shi‘i hadith circles. by exploring some traditions in the hadith collection of al-shaykh al-saduq and comparing the textual similarities and also the chain of transmitters, this research attempts to show that traditions of jewish origin in the shi‘i hadith ci...

Rather than a single black intellectual tradition, there are more properly black intellectual traditions. These are intellectual movements that have developed in the modern world out of the formation of black people, who in turn were formed from a diverse set of ethnic groups. Some emerged from the many African ethnicities brought under the rubric of "black." Others are from varieties of black-...