The following is a description of the historic event of Ghadir Khumm.Ten years after the migration...
Read moreThe validity of the aḥādīth confirming ʿAlī as the Caliph and the Imam is beyond question. But the...
Read moreThe Shīʿa believe that the Caliphate, like prophethood, is a divinely-chosen position: An Imam must be...
Read moreThe answer is that Imam Ali (AS) never hesitated to press for his rights and always...
Read moreShia Islam (5): ʿAlī’s leadership Why did not ʿAlī’s leadership materialize immediately after the Prophet’s death?...
Read moreIf the ḥadīth of Manzila, ḥadīth of Ghadīr and ḥadīth of Badʾ al-Daʿwa point to the political centrality of the Prophet’s Family, there are...
Read morethe Prophet fulfilled a number of key roles and responsibilities that could only be accomplished by...
Read moreIn Islamic parlance, however, the word shīʿa has come to denote three rather different meanings. In one sense,...
Read moreWhat follows is the Fatwa (religious verdict/ruling) of one of the Sunni world’s most revered scholars,...
Read moreThe event of Ghadir Khumm was remembered and referred to on many occasions after the 18th...
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