With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Shab-e-Barat, also known as the Night of Forgiveness, will be observed from February 13 to 14, 2025. Muslims engage in prayers, repentance, and charity on this night, seeking forgiveness and blessings ...

Just as counterfeit products flood the market, so too have counterfeit interpretations of religious texts that have emerged ...

The Sultan of Selangor has today voiced strong opposition to any proposal for a guideline on Muslims attending non-Muslim ...

Even if Trump's outline fails, it might open a new round of regional talks about innovative solutions to the Palestinian ...

Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s closest companion would be the first Caliph (which means ‘deputy to God’s Prophet’). This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed tha ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Kosovo, one of Europe's poorest countries beset with rocky relations with its larger neighbour Serbia, holds parliamentary ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The United States is a beacon for religious freedom. That’s a regrettably rare thing around the world. Pew Research’s 2022 Report on Government Restrictions on Religion showed that restrictions in 198 ...

The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, head of a major development aid foundation and a notable supporter of Irish racing, has died aged 88, his foundation announced.

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's ...