Category: Shia Community
Early Muslim immigration Argentina is one of the largest countries in South in terms of population and size. The presence Shia community in Argentina as a part of Islam development in the country goes back to the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, with the arrival of immigrants mostly from the current […]
As we discussed in the previous post, there are several reasons for Shias’ spread one of which has been already covered. The remaining two will be elaborated on in the following paragraphs. Migration The transnational dimension of Shi‘ism was further extended by global migratory flows after World War II. Shias’ spread started and continued in […]
Spread of Shiism A brief history Spread of Shiism as a minority presence within Islam is of high significance and nowadays they are present across the Muslim world; from North Africa to the Middle East, Central and South Asia. Shi‘ites constitute national minorities in a variety of Muslim majority countries. While countries such as Lebanon, […]
A brief history and the theme of religious authority Marjaeyat in Shi’ism can be studied based on the idea that the specific understanding of religious and spiritual authority around the family of the Prophet and the Imams is a salient feature of Shi‘ism and its different articulations. Twelver Shi‘ism, in particular, developed a specific form […]
The history of Arbaeen walk is situated in early Islamic history. For Shia Muslims, the Battle of Karbala is the seminal event that inspires the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq. During the reign of Umayyad Caliph Yazid, Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) grandson Imam Husayn (AS) was beheaded by the Umayyad army at the plains of Karbala. Forty […]
The Ahlul Bayt Islamic Center, being an active Shia ithna asheri center in Dublin, serves about six thousand Shia Muslims living in Ireland. It is was established by Dr. Ali Al Saleh through the funds collected from the Shia Muslim community of Ireland in 1996 under the supervision of Ayatollah Gholamreza Hassani. The center caters […]
The Islamic Ithna-Asheri Jama’at (ISIJ) of Toronto is a Canadian Shia Ithna Asheri organization for about five thousand Shia Muslims living in Canada, mainly in Ontario. Currently, about two thousand people have membership and voting rights in the organization. The members of the organization are primarily from East African countries having Indian origins. The activities […]
The Bilal Muslim mission is an organization of Ithna Asheri Shias, established by Hussein Nasser Walji and Syed Saeed Akhtar Rizvi in 1964. This organization has established five different missions in Kenya, Tanzania, America and Scandinavia. The Mission’s name is taken from an African companion of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Hazrat Bilal ibn Ribah. Centers The […]
The Ismaili Centers The main Shia Ismaili Centers are the places for Ismaili Shia Muslims to gather together and hold various cultural, religious and educational gatherings. These Centers are a type of the traditional ‘Jamatkhanas’, a place of gathering that existed among the Muslim societies throughout the Islamic history. The main purpose of these centers […]
Introduction An ‘Hawzah’ or ‘Hawzah Ilmiyah’ is an educational center of the Ithna Asheri Shias where religious studies and research is undertaken in the context of Islam. Although most prominent ithna asheri Islamic seminaries are located in Najaf and Qom, some smaller hawzahs are also present in cities like Mashhad, Isfahan, Karbala, Beirut, Lucknow and […]