al-Sidrah

Reza Hemyari sat down with Sayyid Sulayman Hassan to discuss Sayyid Sīstānī's letter to the mobilization forces fighting ISIS.

A summary of L.I.F.E. 2015, an intensive-studies course hosted by the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary.

The Islamic Texts Institute, under the direction of Shaykh Rizwan Arastu, has recently published an original translation and commentary on Ziyārat ʿĀshūrāʾ, a devotional salutation to the Prophet’s (ṣ) grandson Imam Ḥusayn (ʿa) on the day of his tragic martyrdom. The translation is lucid, and the commentary profound, with subjects ranging from Imam Husayn's birth to the logic of laʿn. al-Sidrah has obtained and published a short excerpt of this work.

This is the first installment in a series of translations of Sayyid Saʿīd al-Ḥakīm's work on taqlīd—referring to a jurist for legal issues. This article deals with the origins of the practice of taqlīd in the Shīʿī community.

An excerpt from the book, God’s Emissaries: Adam to Jesus, penned by Shaykh Rizwan Arastu, on the cosmic events surrounding the creation of Adam (a).