Shia Islam

Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – c Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – c Principles of Jurisprudence (Uṣūl al-Fiqh) It is quite obvious that deriving laws from the Qur’an,…

Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – b Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – b Qur’anic exegesis Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – b The Qur’an…

Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – a Shia Islam: Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization / 33 – a Shīʿa contributions to Islamic civilization The history of human civilization is such a vast…

Shia Islam: Imam al-Mahdī /32 Shia Islam: Imam al-Mahdī /32 Imam al-Mahdī The twelfth Imam is the Mahdī. He was born in 868 AD in Samarra. His real name is Muḥammad and his tektonym is Abū al-Qāsim. The tyrannical regime of…

Shia Islam: Imam Ḥasan ‘al-ʿAskarī / 31 Shia Islam: Imam Ḥasan ‘al-ʿAskarī / 31 Imam Ḥasan ‘al-ʿAskarī Imam Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī, the son of Imam al-Hādī, was the eleventh Shīʿa Imam. He was born in Medina in 846 AD and died in…

Shia Islam: Imam al-Hādī /30 Shia Islam: Imam al-Hādī /30 Imam al-Hādī Imam ʿAlī al-Naqi, the tenth Shīʿa Imam, was born in 827 AD (Mufīd, Irshād; Kashf al-Ghamma) and died in 868 AD. His teknonym was Abū al-Ḥasan, and his…

Shia Islam: Imam Jawād /29 Shia Islam: Imam Jawād /29 Imam Jawād Imam Muḥammad Taqī, better known as al-Al-Jawād (‘The Generous’), was born in Medina in 811 AD. He was killed by the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad in 835 AD. He was…

Shia Islam: Imam al-Riḍā /29 Shia Islam: Imam al-Riḍā /29  Imam al-Riḍā The eighth Shīʿa Imam, ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā, was born in Medina in 765 AD. His parents were Imam Mūsā al-Kāẓim and Ṭāhira. He was given the epithet al-Riḍā…

Shia Islam: Imam al-Kāẓim /28 Shia Islam: Imam al-Kāẓim /28 Imam al-Kāẓim Imam Mūsā b. Jaʿfar, the seventh Shīʿa Imam, was born in 745 AD in Medina. He died in Baghdad in 799 AD. Yazīd b. Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik, Ibrāhīm b. Walīd…

Shia Islam: Imam al-Sādiq /27 Shia Islam: Imam al-Sādiq /27 Imam al-Sādiq Imam al-Sādiq, the sixth the Imam, was born in 702 AD in Medina. He passed away in 765 AD there and buried in Baqīʿ Cemetry. His mother was Umm Farwa…