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 ...

Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of Shia Ismaili Muslims and a prominent philanthropist, passed away in Lisbon at 88, leaving behind a legacy of leadership, wealth, and global impact ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A parade of Wall Street luminaries is due to testify in a hotly anticipated case starting on Friday ...

Iran is a Shite state while Afghanistan is a Sunni nation. The Sunni-Shia conflict in Islam goes back to the founding of the religion when the question of succession to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH ...

Every Fundamentalist needs to read Chris Anderson’s new book The Scandal of Schism. The book charts the currents that are pulling younger Fundamentalists away from a strict separatist position. We ...

The Roman Catholic Church of the West and the Orthodox Church of the East have an ongoing rift that can be traced to the 11th century: the Great Schism. A schism is the purposeful separation from the ...

King Charles held an audience with Iraq's prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani at Buckingham Palace today, as the royal returns to work amid ongoing cancer treatment. The monarch, 76 ...