The new issue of Shi’i Studies Journal has been released by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization of Iran in New York.
According
to the public relations office and information center of the Islamic Culture
and Relations Organization (ICRO), the journal is released in the US, jointly
with the Global Scholarly Publication, a non-profit cultural institute.
The
issue encompasses in-depth articles about Avicenna’s thinking regarding the
universe and creation.
The
journal is aimed at introduction and reflection of the true face of Islam and
Shi’ism to the academic and cultural society of the US.
The
Essence of Unity (Tawḥīd) by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (The Honorable Supreme
Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Issues Concerning the Life of the
Twelfth Holy Imām (A.S.) by Mahdī hadavi Tehrani (Qom, Islamic Seminary),
Revelation and Salvation—Towards an Islamic View of History by Mahmoud Ayoub
(Hartford Seminary, Temple University), The Context of Creation (Khalq) in
Shī‘a Cosmogony by Parviz Morewedge (SUNY, Old Westbury; GSP), The Ayatollah
Khamenei’s Fatwa as the Basis of IRI’s Prohibition on the Use of WMD by Mohsen
Eslami (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran), A Comparison of the Cosmologies of
Aquinas, Ibn Sīnā and the Shi‘ite Doctrine of Creation and Emanation by Edward
Macierowski (Benedictine College, Kansas), and The Sacred Memory of
Intersection of Faith and Sincerity in the Life and Governance of ‘Alī b. AbīṬālib
by Habibeh Rahim (St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY) are the articles included
in the issue.
Source:
IBNA News Agency