جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "holy shrines" در نشریات گروه "علوم قرآن و حدیث"

One of the long-standing customs among Shiites is the moving of the deceased to holy shrines for burial. From a jurisprudential perspective, the supreme principle in question is that moving the deceased to holy shrines should be discouraged, particularly in light of the emphasis on expediting the funeral process. However, the consensus opinions of jurists generally and some evidence contradict this principle. The primary focus of this article is the extent of acceptability of transferring the deceased to holy shrines subject to certain limitations (e.g., when it necessitates dismembering the deceased’s organs, corrupts the deceased, or needs exhumation). The research findings, presented based on library and software, show that the aforementioned guideline is not applicable and should not be followed in situations when the transfer of the deceased necessitates their dismemberment or corruption. However, it is permissible to claim respectability while digging a dead body in order to move it to holy shrines, provided that the exhumation does not result in the body’s decay or the stench that can bother Muslims.

Referring to various sciences such as history, hadith, jurisprudence, law, and ethics, this study first describes the duties of the custodians of the Holy Shrines as the ruling government which has accepted the hosting and organizing the Hajj and Umrah affairs. The current services to the Holy Shrines are evaluated by indexing these criteria and comparing them with the existing situation. The current state of giving services to the Holy Shrines is documented by scientific and press sources as well as the author’s observations during his visit to the two Shrines. In addition to this critical evaluation and discussing the existing shortcomings of the services to the Holy Shrines, certain proposals are made to improve the services to achieve the desired status in terms of Islamic teachings and culture. This is a library-based, experimental and interdisciplinary study that tries to offer new proposals in religious, welfare, cultural, and political management of the services to the Holy Shrines.

The holy shrines of Imam Ali (AS), Imam Hussein (AS), and other Imams buried in Iraq with the construction of great buildings for their graves in the 3rd and 4th centuries AH have gradually attracted all Muslims’ attention.At that time, Baghdad and Kufa were two important departures for the Hajj pilgrimage; and traveling from the eastern Islamic lands such as Iran, Khorasan, and Central Asia, many caravans used to pass through Iraq on their way. Sometimes, they were visiting the two holy shrines of Imam Ali and Imam Hussein. The present descriptive study, enriched with maximum historical evidence including written texts and sources (e.g. Hajj guidelines and travelogues) and ancient pictorial documents (e.g. Hajj certificates and Shiite pilgrimage scrolls), aims to reveal that the pilgrimage of the holy shrines has gradually become associated with the Hajj pilgrimages of some Muslims of the Muslim lands and many of the Hajj caravans passing through Iraq visited the Imams’ shrines in Iraq, especially those belong to Imam Ali and Imam Hussein, as a part of their spiritual rites of the Hajj pilgrimage.

The Islamic world has always suffered from the fire of division. One of the solutions to overcoming the divergent forces is the idea of ​​convergence of the holy shrines to use the great capacities of the pilgrimage organizations.
The convergence of the holy shrines pursues the ideal of unity through the idea of ​​the unity of the Muslim world. Convergence is one of the concepts that has attracted a lot of attention, especially in international relations, but this paper takes a cultural-civilizational view of this concept and considers it a kind of conformity in values, policies and actions. The purpose of this study is to examine the convergence dimensions of the holy shrines as Shiite pilgrimage organizations, which are responsible for pilgrimage. The method of data collection is documentary study and interview, and the analysis of the data was done with the content analysis method. Based on the findings, according to thematic analysis of collected data, the six major themes and organizer of the "advantages", "foundations", "backgrounds", "barrier", "consequences" and "strategy" for the central theme of "the convergence of the Holy Shrines" was identified. Given the ultimate goal of integration organizations of the holy shrines, understanding the organizational convergence of holy shrines as the first step of a more general process whose next step is the integration between cultures and civilizations, understanding the true relationship between pilgrimage and tourism, set aside organizational desires, and given the complementary role of the holy shrine in the convergence process, considering the historical geography of the sacred sites, not considering the organizations as central axis to the integration process, convergence and contextual diplomacy and paving the way to bring the Sunnis together, and finally the strategic understanding of the holy shrines organizations of their role in the convergence process, are the most important strategies for the convergence of the holy shrines as Shiite organizations, which are responsible for the pilgrimage.

Nowadays, with the growth of the new communication technologies such as Internet, many people respond to some of their needs like religious needs by this media tool. One of these religious needs, that used by muslims and particularly by Shia, is pilgrimage. ‘Shia holy shrine virtual pilgrimage’ needs to design special services in the internet. So the purpose of this article is study of internet sites with religious-pilgrimage subject to design the virtual pilgrimage portal of shia holy shrine in content and structural dimensions. Hence 23 religious-pilgrimage internet sites chosen selectively and were studied with qualitative content analysis method. Results show that there are 89 content and structure dimensions in religious-pilgrimage internet sites. These dimensions include 21 structural and 69 content dimensions that classified in 12 categories. These categories include: 1. Pilgrimage, 2. Interactions with site, 3. Providing service to the shrine, 4. More acquaintance, 5. Media, 6. Notification, 7. Pilgrimage groups, 8. Time and programs management, 9. Education and research, 10.Softwares, 11.Business, and 12.Structural factors. According to these dimensions, tow content and structure models are introduced and, after repeatedly reviewing of the sites structures and locations of services in the studied sites, we have proposed three structural model for ‘Shia holy shrine virtual pilgrimage portal', that include: 1. Preface page, 2. Home page, and 3. Site map.