The Middle East is in the midst of ever-increasing tension, as conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia is spiraling to involve more countries in the region. Saudi Arabia severed all diplomatic ties ...

Sunni close SunniMuslims who believe in the successorship of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali as leaders of the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims specifically set the duties out ...

Syria is the only Middle Eastern country that has a majority Sunni population but is ruled by a Shiite minority. The Assads, who took power in 1970, are Alawites, a subsect of Shia Islam that ...

Sayyida Zeinab has been the site of past attacks on Shiite pilgrims by IS - which takes an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels. In 2023, a motorcycle planted ...

Over time, Sunni Islam became deeply ingrained in the daily lives and identity of the Maldivian people. Today, the Maldives is one of the world's most devoutly Muslim nations. Islam plays a ...

Most African American Muslims today are Sunni Muslims who pray to the formless Supreme Being they call Allah - God. They are not members of the Nation of Islam, but follow the leadership of Imam ...

Some Sunni Muslims believe that God has already determined everything that will happen in the universe. Only what God has decreed will happen to us. — Qur’an 9:51 Humans do not have the ...

New Delhi: The modern-day Syria with its capital in Damascus is considered as an Arab Islamic country where the majority of population comprises Sunni Muslims, about 74 per cent followed by Shia ...

His focus falls on the “inexorable return of Sunni Islam in general, and the mystical religious orders in particular”, and the way that both are integral today “in the culture of the Turks”.