Currently on a visiting research fellowship at Al-Mahdi Institute; Dr Sayyed Jaafar Fadhlallah, son of late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadhlallah, has been actively involved in AMI’s events and activities whilst also teaching on the Four-year Hawza programme. During his …
Part time AMI student, Anderson Al-Wazni published a blog post entitled ‘Pushed to extremes: the human cost of climate change’ in Oxford University Press Blog. The blog post examines the recent US elections and the impact of climate change policies …
On Thursday 19th October 2017, Al-Mahdi Institute held a Research seminar on the topic of; “Gender Violence and Qur’ān 4:34: An Interpretive Analysis between Tradition and Modernity” conducted by Shaykh Mahmoud Ali Gomaa Afifi from Lancaster University. The seminar was attended by AMI …
On Saturday 14th October 2017, the Shia Scholars Forum held a roundtable discussion on the topic ‘Karbala in the midst of History and Narrative: Typology of Genres of Maqatil’ at Al-Mahdi Institute. On the premise of distinguishing between history and …
On Thursday 5th October 2017, Dr Sarfraz Jeraj delivered a seminar on an ‘Introduction to Mental Health – What to look out for and what to do’ for the benefit of AMI students and faculty. The seminar aimed to raise …