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

Engineer founded Minorities Democratic Party to provide a political platform to followers of moderate Islam and Sufism, but ...

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

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

Farouk’s statement comes a day after Kuru rejected claims that his books contradict Sunni Islam, insisting that they are academic works in social sciences, not theology. Kuru’s other book ...

A controversial Ramadan TV series banned in both Iran and Iraq explores the possible origins of the schism between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims. We hear from Dr Sayed Ammar Nakshawani- Prophet Muhammad ...

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

Amine Ayoub of the Middle East Forum warns: “You cannot go from being an al-Qaeda affiliate to a human rights defender ...

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala has ruled that the case challenging the election of Sheikh ...

Khan, who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls against Nitin Gadkari, has long been associated with Minorities ...