Najaf – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Wed, 06 Mar 2024 07:57:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Najaf – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Imam Sadiq Online Seminary https://iric.org/imam-sadiq-online-seminary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imam-sadiq-online-seminary https://iric.org/imam-sadiq-online-seminary/#respond Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:05:24 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=29868 Imam Sadiq Online Seminary has taken necessary steps to pave the way for those who are eager to keep their faith strong but are unable to relocate to Qom, Najaf, or other Islamic schools in the Middle East due to their circumstances.

Imam Sadiq Online Seminary is an independent non-profit, non-political seminary established in 2012 in cooperation with well-educated and compassionate Hawzah teachers in order to train pious scholars and preachers. They have two active offices and studios in Qom and Najaf.

Imam Sadiq Online Seminary
The Website of Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) seminary offers virtual and distance learning of seminary courses in Persian, English and Urdu.

Imam Sadiq Online Seminary has:

  • Approximately 10,000 online students worldwide,
  • Almost 3000 prerecorded Hawza lessons in English and Farsi,
  • Summary, assignment, and exam for every single lesson.

 

Services:

  • Online seminary: It’s totally FREE for anyone to apply in Hawza and study abroad with unrestricted time and place for studying, besides daily activities and responsibilities.
  • Online tutoring: Provides professional Qur’an, Akhlaq, Aqaed, and Ahkam online tutoring via Skype for kids and teenagers in an easy way with one session free trial.
  • Introducing lecturers: Many of Shia communities are in need of lecturers for special events who can travel to non-Islamic countries. This Seminary is in connection with many scholars and is able to introduce them to communities upon their request.
  • Virtual lectures: Communities that are in need of lecturers for their events or weekly ceremonies and are unable to finance a scholar to fly over, may contact them and they’ll arrange virtual ceremonies in English, Farsi, Urdu, or Arabic.
  • Introducing students to the Hawza: Provides consultation and supports for those youths who are willing to study in a physical seminary.
  • Travel guidance and arrangement to holy sites: Provides information and supports as well as a knowledgeable guide for traveling to Najaf, Karbala, Mashhad, and Hajj Inshallah.

 

Contacts

Phone: +1 (202) 888-4475

Email: english@imamsadiq.tv

Website: https://imamsadiq.tv/en

 

]]> https://iric.org/imam-sadiq-online-seminary/feed/ 0 Report: The Proliferation of Religious Art and the Degradation of the Image’s Power https://iric.org/report-the-proliferation-of-religious-art-and-the-degradation-of-the-images-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-the-proliferation-of-religious-art-and-the-degradation-of-the-images-power https://iric.org/report-the-proliferation-of-religious-art-and-the-degradation-of-the-images-power/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:29:57 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=21392 Walter Benjamin argued that in an age of mass technology the increased reproducibility of art objects would degrade their ‘authenticity’ and ‘aura’. In the Shia community of Sydney, photographs and moving images proliferate alongside the popularity of pilgrimage or ziarat to the holy sites of Karbala and Najaf in Iraq. Pilgrims from Australia return to share selfies and group shots on Facebook. Huge reproductions of the shrines adorn the walls of Sydney’s Islamic Centers. But does increased access to the production, distribution, and consumption of photography decrease the aura of these images?

I examine this question through the work of Tom Toby, a Sydney artist whose photography has traced the ziarat for a number of years, and whose work has been widely distributed in the Shia community. In this presentation I show how practices of ziarat involve liturgical and ethical practices that break the rules of Copernican space, enabling complex modes of interaction with the sublime across ‘distance’. Paralleling and augmenting these practices, Tom’s photography inhabits a similarly complex approach to space. I show how modes of photographic production and distribution used by Tom, as well as the form and technique of his work, offer an additional long-distance means for the Shia of Sydney to aesthetically and ethically participate in the sublime.

Source: The Australian National University

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