Shia Archives - Tolou International Institute

Islamic Studies Digest

The book “Arba‘īn in Shia Culture” explores the exclusive link between Arba‘īn and Imam Hussein, criticizing its extension to others. It highlights the spiritual significance of Arba‘īn as a key symbol of Shia identity and the number forty in Islamic tradition

Author: Seyed Mohammad Mohsen Hosseini Tehrani
Reviewed by: Hossein Baqeri

This is a short volume on the backgrounds of Imam al-Husayn’s epoch-making and historic movement.

Author: academic staff members of the al-Abbas Holy Shrine
Reviewed by: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani

This is a volume on the backgrounds and various aspects and definitions of history and Islamic history. It has been written with a view to be used as a set university textbook in general courses of Islamic history.

Author: Syyed Jafar Shahidi
Reviewed by: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani

Jaʻfar Sobhani, Saqīfah, Qum: Entesharat Towhid, 1392 Sh/ 2013. 232 pp. Saqīfah was certainly one of the most scandalous and regrettable mishaps that took place in the early Islamic history, […]

Author: Jaʻfar Sobhani
Reviewed by: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani

This is a two-volume and coherent account of the Ashura episode. Book author: Sayyid Muḥammad Saʽīd al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Ḥakīm

Book review author: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani

Author: Sayyid Muḥammad Saʽīd al-Ṭabāṭabāʼī al-Ḥakīm
Reviewed by: Dr. Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani

This is a short introduction to Shii Islam, its brief history, major articles of faith, and ritual practices

Book author: Mohammad Ali Shomali

Author: Mohammad Ali Shomali
Reviewed by: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani