What is Shia Islam? - Twelverism

In this episode we explore one of the most fascinating texts in the history of Western esotericism: Porphyry's Commentary on the Cave of the Nymphs. Written in the 3rd century, this short but remarkable work interprets a mysterious passage from Homer's Odyssey as a profound alleg ...  Show more

The Hare Krishna movement didn't start with chanting monks in airports, it began over 500 years ago with a Bengali mystic named Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This video traces the full history of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, from its roots in 16th-century devotional Hinduism to its transformatio ...  Show more

In this episode we discuss the formation of Shia orthodoxy. Picking up from our earlier episode on early Shi’ism we explore how the experience of persecution under the Umayyads and Abbasid shaped Shia thought and doctrine. We discuss the Muhammad al Baqir and Jaffar as Sadiq and ...  Show more

This episode traces the early developments of Shi’ism. In it we discuss the original schism of authority, how the Shiatul Ali form and the compromise that is reached by the community. We talk about how the divisions between the different tribes reflect the alignments of Pre-Islam ...  Show more

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- How 'al-Shia al-Mufid Li'ilm' helps find the top Marja- Factors that can deem this principle unusable- How the concept of '2 just experts' works to find A'lam - What to do when '2 just experts' disagree?- Can we find ...  Show more

Things you'll learn in this episode of The Real Shia Beliefs:- Difference in Tahrif hadith in Bukhari and al-Kafi- Why Shias don't accept hadith on distortion in al-Kafi- Why scholars don't delete weak hadith from al-Kafi?- Tampering in Sahih al-Bukhari in the past decades- How S ...  Show more