It provides a focused overview of Imam al-Mahdi (AS), the twelfth and last Imam of Shia Muslims also known as the Imam of the Age, who went into occultation after succeeding his father as leader at ...

Organized by the Quranic program “Mahfel” (literary meaning assembly), the event was held on the eve of the Islamic Unity Week and in celebration of the Imamate of Imam al-Mahdi (AS), the last of the ...

Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...

T he second week of August, I was in Tehran and Qom for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s fourth annual “International Conference of Mahdism Doctrine,” sponsored by the Bright Future Institute. This ...

Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) was born in Madina, on the 8th day of the month of Rabi' Thani, in the year 232 A.H. Imam's name is al-Hasan, being a resident of 'Asgar a suburb of Samarra', he is titled al ...

Imam Hasan Al-'Askari (AS) was born in Madina, on the 8th day of the month of Rabi' Thani, in the year 232 A.H. Imam's name is al-Hasan, being a resident of 'Asgar a suburb of Samarra', he is titled ...

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