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 ...

They would later be called simply Shia Muslims. Others are called Sunni Muslims, from the word meaning “tradition.” Thus, the distinction between the groups hinges on their interpretation of ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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 ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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 ...