What do the occult sciences, seances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rati...
Al-Imam Al-Jawad (Ghudwa Wa Uswa) (11)
by Grand Ayatollah S M T Al-Modarresi Db
Bayyenat Min Fiqh Al-Quran (Soorat Al-Noor)
by Grand Ayatollah S M T Al-Modarresi Db
Offenbarung, Exegese Und Ratio (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, #343)
by Seyed Ali Sadr
Kitab Al-Mu'min
by Pfad Der Liebenden E V and Hussein Ibn Sa'id Al-Kufi Al-Ahwazi
Mafatih al-Jinan (Mataih Al-Jinan, #2) (Mafatih Al-Jinan, #2)
by Ali Quli Qarai and Shaykh Abbas Qummi
The Shi'a Imams in the Words of Preeminent Sonni Scholarship (Shi'a Islam Doctrinal, #2)
by Mas'ud Emami
The Master and the Disciple (Ismaili Texts and Translations)
This volume presents a fully annotated English translation and critical edition of the Arabic text of the Kitab al-'Alim wa'l Ghulam (The Book of the Master and the Disciple), one of the earliest Ismaili Shi'i writings by the famous AH 4th/10th century CE Yemeni author, Ja'far b. Mansur al-Yaman. It preserves in authentic form a glimpse of the character of Ismaili thought and activities in the period prior to the establishment of the Fatimid state in AH 296/909 CE. In addition to being a key so...
Relax We're All Crazy Here, It's Not a Competition
by Working Tsebiya
Influence of Persian and Hindu Beliefs and Practices in Shiism (Shia, #1)
by Jafar Swadique
Blasphemy and Apostasy in Islam (In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers)
by Mohsen Kadivar
Is it lawful to shed the blood of someone who insults the Prophet Muhammad? Does the Qu'ran stipulate a worldly punishment for apostates? This book tells the gripping story of Rafiq Taqi, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a blasphemous news article in 2006. Delving into the Qu'ran and Hadith - the most sacred sources for all Muslims - Mohsen Kadivar explores the subject of blasphemy and apostasy from the perspective of Shi'a jurisprudence...