This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed that Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law should lead the community. These Muslims came to be known as Shi’a, which means ‘Party of Ali’ ...

Shia Muslims observe these timings slightly differently than Sunnis, particularly regarding the Muslim practice of keeping Iftar to a near exercise about ten minutes after sundown, a precautionary ...

In 2011, this Sunni scholar was one of the voices of the uprising against the ousted President Bashar al-Assad. He was even nicknamed the “Sheikh of the Revolution” for his sermons calling the ...

Iran, a Shi'a power, has been waging war in both Iraq and Syria against Sunni Arab forces. In Iraq, the Iranian-backed Shi’a militias have fought against IS, as well as committing atrocities ...

Among the basic themes to be discussed in that introduction are: • the idea of the “Middle East” as a distinct geo-political region; • the fundamentals of the region: the religious, ethnic, and ...

New Delhi: Recently, we reported that during Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to Delhi, Moscow might offer its ...

Anjali is a chemical engineering graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, whose ...

The JPC was already a farce, but now they’ve stooped even lower, censoring dissenting voices of Opposition MPs’: Syed Naseer ...

Ismaili Islam is a branch of Shia Islam. According to the Shiites ... false successor to protect his lineage from the Sunni Muslims. For Ismailis, a follower's spiritual journey, guided by ...

Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one Shia businessman on charges the United Nations has deemed arbitrary and which campaigners and legal experts say ...

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 ...