There is a segment of society yearning for reform and more liberal attitudes towards religion and life, yet the Shia Islam ...

KOZHIKODE: Sunnis led by Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musaliyar have asked the Jama’at-e-Islami to disband the organisation and ...

The USCIRF has recommended Turkey for the U.S. State Department’s Special Watch List due to severe religious freedom ...

There are Sunni councils and there are Shia councils and there are Sufi councils. We are the only imam council in the world ...

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad.

The final two years of Malcolm’s life, following his break from the Nation of Islam, marked a pivotal shift toward internationalist and anti-capitalist values deeply embedded in his activism.

Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan is viewed as a key opponent of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and a central figure in Shiite Islam. The Sunni-Shiite divide can be traced back to the year 632 after ...

The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims remains one of the central features shaping the political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Rooted in Islamic history since the 7th century ...

The other is a large number of Syrians (all Christians, all Shia muslims and an indeterminate number of Sunni muslims) prefer even Assad to the rule of the HTS fanatics. It’s no coincidence that ...

At least 32 people were killed and 47 wounded in sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan, an official said on Saturday, two days after attacks on Shiite passenger convoys killed 43. Sporadic ...

The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites have killed dozens of people in recent months.