Sayed Ammar Nakshawani | Islamic Studies

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Were all the Imams (a) of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) killed? The origins of this debate can be traced back to the words of Shaykh Ṣadūq and Shaykh Mufīd. When addressing the phenomenon of exaggeration (ghuluw) with respects to the status of the Prophet (p)...

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One of the more contemporary problems which religions have tended to face as a criticism and as an outgrowth of contemporary Western liberalism and the desire to escape some of the intolerance of religious bigotry and violence of the past is that religions...

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A claim that has been made in recent years is that the Shī’ī ḥadīth corpus has been heavily infiltrated with Isra’iliyyat.[1] This paper seeks to investigate the truth of this claim, and that even if such a claim is true, whether the corpus has been...

One of the most commonly thrown around slogans in the rhetorical inventory of Muslim thinkers is the idea that much of tradition is inauthentic and a perversion of the original course of those religious doctrines. This is hardly novel thinking and yet...