Al-Shaheed Ayatollah al-Udhmah al-Sayyid Muhammed Baqir al-Sadr was born on the 25 al-Qi’da 1353/ 28 February 1935, in Kadhimiya, Iraq. Commentators highlight Shaheed al-Sadr’s ‘international …
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The Age of Absurdity
BY MICHAEL FOLEY (2010)
SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD, 272 PAGES; £10.99
ISBN: 978-1847375247
We live in an age where the X Factor receives more votes than the general elections, where thousands of people suffered from depression after seeing the 3D movie Avatar …
FOSIS Media Conference 2010
10 April 2010; 11am – 5pm; Imperial College London.
The image of Islam in the popular media is just as pertinent a topic now as it was after 11 September 2001. Almost a decade on, and with the tragic conflation of Islam …
Three Cups of Tea
“Here we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything – even die.” …
Dispatches: “Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby”
Broadcasted by Channel 4 on 16 November 2009 (8-9pm), this documentary was the result of the investigative journalism of Peter Oborne and his team on the Pro Israeli Lobby in Britain. This edition of Dispatches looked into its little known activities …
Fatima al-Zahra (as)
Fatima al-Zahra (as) was born in the holy city of Makkah on the 20th of Jumadi al-Akhir (615 AD), five years after the declaration of the final message of Islam. Of the titles given to Fatima (as) by the holy Prophet (pbuh) …
Prophet Yusuf (as) series
Prophet Yusuf’s (as) story, described as “the best of narratives” in the Holy Quran, is an epic 45 episode series (one hour each) depicting the story of Prophet Yusuf (as). This series is directed by Farajollah Salahshoor, whose records include series of …
Perfect Man
Islamic Insights – In his book Perfect Man Ayatollah Murtadha Muttahari examines the subject of perfection from the viewpoint of various philosophers and points out their deficiencies using the Islamic ideology and standard for perfection. He explains the route towards self-perfection …
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
Six hundred years after the time of Jesus, a man was born in Mecca, Arabia, who was to become the beacon of guidance, the dispeller of falsehood and the greatest of the Almighty’s creations sent as a “mercy to the worlds”.
Neither …

