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Hoarding or iḥtikār (Arabic: الاحتکار), is to store necessary goods with the intention to sell them at a higher price when they become rare. It is attributed...

Imāmbāra (Hindi: इमामबाड़ा; Urdu: امام باڑہ) or Imambargah (Urdu: امام بارگاه) is a congregation hall in India where Shi'ites Muslims gathered together...

Sharī'a payments or al-wujūhāt al-shar'īyya (Arabic: الوجوهات الشرعية) are what religiously accountable (mukallaf) persons ought to pay because of shari'a...

Ḥaḍratbal Shrine (Urdu: حضرت بل) is the most important shrine of Muslims in Kashmir where it is claimed that a strand of Prophet Muhammad's (s) hair is...

Al-Sayyid Nūr Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Shūshtarī (Arabic:السَیِّد نُورُالله حُسَینی الشوشتَری) (b. 956/1549-50, d.1019/1610) famous as al-Qāḍi Nūr Allāh or...

Sayyid Ḥāmid Ḥusayn Mūsavī (سید حامد حسین موسوي; b. 1246/1830 - d. 1306/1888) known as Mīr Ḥāmid Ḥusayn al-Hindī (Arabic: مير حامد حسين الهندي) is among...

Tabdhīr (Arabic: تَبذیر) is a grave sin, which consists in improperly using, or squandering, one's money and property. Tabdhir is a kind of israf, which...

Bribery or al-Rishwa (Arabic: الرشوة) is a forbidden action and in jurisprudential terminology means giving property to a judge to change the true verdict...

Sayyid Muḥammad Qulī Mūsawī Hindī Neyshābūrī (1174-1260/1761-1844) known as Allāma Kuntūrī was a Shi'a scholar in hadith, jurisprudence and theology and...

Madrasatul Wāizeen or Madrasat al-Wā'izin (College of Preachers), founded in 1919, is an old centre of Twelver Shia education in the city of Lucknow, India...

Al-Makāsib al-muḥarrama (Arabic: المَکاسِب المُحَرَّمَة, literally: forbidden businesses) refers to businesses that are haram (forbidden) in Islam. In...

Mīr Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Tirmidhī Ḥusaynī Akbarābādī (Persian: میرمحمدصالح ترمذی حسینی اکبرآبادی) whose pen names were Kashfī and Subḥānī, was an Iranian Muhaddith...

Mīr Shams al-Dīn al-Irāqī (Arabic: میر شمس الدین العراقي) (b. 845/1441-2 - d. 932/1525-6) was from the progeny of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a). Mir Shmas al-Din...

Lucknow is the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh, and a center of Shi'as in India. The capital of the Awadh government was first in Faizabad, India...

Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslims are a united Shia minority with a population of about 125 thousand people who have a remarkable order among themselves...

Private endowment (Arabic: الوقف الخاصّ) is to give a physical property (such as a piece of land, garden, house, etc.) so that specific person or persons...

Public endowment (Arabic: وقف عام) is giving a physical property (e.g. land, house, garden, etc.) for the enjoyment of the public or a certain group (with...

Ḥiyāzat (Arabic: حیازَت) or Ḥiyāzat-i mubāhāt is acquisition of movable properties (property that can be moved from one place to another) which does not...