Rafed Network for Cultural Development

The rafed network is based in Shi'a academic center of the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.almujtaba.com/links/org.html |title=AlMujtaba Links Directory |publisher=AlMujtaba.com}} It was established by Institute of Ahl al-Bayt (as) for Restoration of Books (Arabic: Institute of āl al-bayt alayhumassalam li-ihya ul-turrāth, {{lang|ar|مؤسّسة آل البيت عليهم السلام لإحياء التراث}}), a large institute that was established in 1983{{in lang|ar}} [http://rafed.com/about_us.html "about us"] on rafed.net and has become one of the largest providers of documentation on Shia scholarship in the world,{{in lang|ar}} https://www.rafed.com/ar/aal-ul-bayt

having branches in [http://en.alulbayt.com/ UK], [http://www.alulbait.de/ Germany], [http://www.alulbeyt.com.tr/ Turkey] Lebanon and Syria.

They are the owners of Rafed.net, a mainly Arabic site, as can be seen from its main page, but it also has an English section. The site is the most third most visited Shi'a site among Alexa Internet users, second only to Irna.com and al-shia.com.

The site has Qur'an translations in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Russian, English and the original Arabic.

The site is notable for spreading the scholarship of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,"Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development" By Daniel Heradstveit, page 140, on Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=uOAkbzCwxvwC&dq=Rafed.net&pg=PA140] and is among several Shi'a sites blocked in Saudi Arabia.{{cite web | url = http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000151.php | title = Religious Freedom in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Focus on Citizens | author = Saudi Institute | publisher = Shia News |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060428112814/http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000151.php |archivedate = 2006-04-28}} Joshua Teitelbaum writes:

{{quote|Many in Saudi Arabia’s minority (about 12%) Shi‘i population seem to spend much of their Internet time at Arabic-language Shi‘i sites. Rafed.net, and other such sites, report that 45% of their traffic comes from the Kingdom. These sites are apparently banned, but the owners switch domain names often and users have developed techniques to get around the Saudi censor.Joshua Teitelbaum, a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, referencing Joseph Braude, “Iran: A Growing Internet Market Weathers a Temporal Storm,” Pyramid Research Advisory Service, May 18, 2001. {{cite web |url=http://www.tau.ac.il/dayancenter/Teitelbaum.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-12-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041227054359/http://www.tau.ac.il/dayancenter/Teitelbaum.pdf |archivedate=2004-12-27 }}}}

• The Ahlulbayt (a.s.) Global Information Center
• Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project

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• [http://rafed.net Rafed.net]
• [http://rafed.com Rafed.com]

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