According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However, a disagreement emerged soon afterward about the prophet’s death regarding ...

Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government took into ...

Backgrounder: Some experts say a "Shiite crescent" holds the potential to transform Islamic politics in the coming years. Is a Shiite crescent extending from Beirut to Tehran emerging in the ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as sectarian tensions escalate in the war-torn country ...

The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

Ramadan is celebrated by nearly 2 billion Muslims across the world, with different traditions in various countries and communities. Sunni and Shia Muslims, the two main sects of Islam, observe ...

Villages like Fahil that are home to members of the Alawite sect — an offshoot of Shiite Islam — often ... largely Islamist fighters from the Sunni Muslim majority that opposed Assad.

In interviews with The New Arab, viewers and scholars expressed outrage over the Muawiya TV series’ controversial depiction ...