The Shīʿah Institute - المعهد الشيعي

The Shīʿah Institute - المعهد الشيعي Independent institute founded in 1433 / 2012 to promote scholarship on Shia Islam
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The Shīʿah Institute facilitates and promotes scholarship on Shīʿah Ithnā ʿAsharī Islam, its heritage, and its peoples. It provides a forum for the highest standard of scholarship and research and the academic dissemination of the timeless and universal aspects of the Shīʿah tradition. The Institute’s research and publications aim to present diverse approaches founded upon effective traditions of

textual scholarship and hermeneutics, complemented by modern academic methodologies in order to preserve, illuminate, and share the Shīʿah intellectual tradition. The Shīʿah Institute is an independent, non-political organisation and is committed to collaboration with academic institutes and organisations with similar aims. The Institute is dedicated to sharing the rich tradition of Shīʿah scholarship with humanity and to ensuring a bright future for quality academic research pertaining to Shīʿah Islam.

22/08/2026
Professor Hamid Algar of the University of California, Berkeley is one of the most renowned scholars of Islamic Studies....
16/08/2026

Professor Hamid Algar of the University of California, Berkeley is one of the most renowned scholars of Islamic Studies. He has authored more than a dozen books and booklets, many translation works, and over twenty seven articles and chapters on Islamic studies, Arabic and Persian literature, and the history of Islamic Republic of Iran, Türkiye, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. During an era of great change within the Middle East, Professor Algar's scholarly contributions and publications introduced to the world a clear perspective on Shia Islam and Islamic Intellectual History. We are pleased and privileged to honour him and announce his appointment as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Shi'ah Islamic Studies at the Shi'ah Institute London, U.K.

Professor Mehdi Mohaghegh of Tehran University and the founder and director of the McGill University (Montreal, Canada) ...
09/08/2026

Professor Mehdi Mohaghegh of Tehran University and the founder and director of the McGill University (Montreal, Canada) Institute of Islamic Studies Tehran Branch is one of the most renowned scholars of Islamic Studies. He has authored more than fifty books and over two hundred and ten articles on Islamic philosophy and mysticism, Persian language and literature, and the history of Islamic medicine. His published works are in Arabic, English and Persian. We are pleased and privileged to honour him and announce his appointment as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Shi'ah Islamic Studies at the Shi'ah Institute London, U.K.

We mourn and lament the killing of Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions (peace be upon them) on the Day of ʿĀs...
26/06/2026

We mourn and lament the killing of Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions (peace be upon them) on the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ. We invoke divine salutations and peace upon Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions. We imprecate divine wrath and vengeance upon their enemies. Allāhumma Āmīn.

On the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ we lament the killing of Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions (peace be upon them). We ...
25/06/2026

On the Day of ʿĀshūrāʾ we lament the killing of Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions (peace be upon them). We invoke divine salutations and peace upon Imām al-Ḥusayn, his family, and his companions and we imprecate divine wrath and vengeance up their enemies.

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