The ayatollah’s theocratic dictatorship espouses the destruction of Israel, anti-American hostilities, and the export of its Twelver Shi’ite ideology to create a hegemonic Muslim theocracy in ...

He received his PhD from McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies. His research focuses on the intellectual history of Twelver Shi’ism, particularly law and legal theory. His first book, The ...

Qassem began by recalling the birthdate of Twelver Shiite Islam’s messianic figure, Mohammad bin al-Hassan al Mahdi—commonly known simply as “The Mahdi”—which occurred two days prior on the Islamic ...