Shias in India India is a country in South Asia with a large number of Shia Muslims who benefit from Shia centers in India. The exact number of Shia Muslims in India is unknown. According to different sources the population of Shia Muslims in India is between thirty to fifty million people. Also, several sources mentioned Shia Muslims of India […]

The Shia Community and Civic Engagement in America Shias social activities in USA is affected by their double consciousness as they navigate between a homeland and an American mentality. One important way of doing this is to engage in civic responsibility. Civic engagement is an important way of escaping marginalization, of feeling at home in […]

As we said before, many active Shia centers in America (USA) s have started working there since 1970s. An early Shi’a institute was the Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an (TTQ). Established in New York in 1978, TTQ has the specific aim of publishing copies of the Qur’an, which are distributed to different parts of the world, including […]