While Muslims describe themselves as the followers of Prophet Muhammad, the holy Quran describes a Muslim as someone who ...

Muslim community waited the entire year for this sacred time of the year. The followers of Fiqh Jafaria (Shia Islam) adhere to their timings for prayer (Namaz) and fasting which are set a few minutes ...

What is the Fiqa Jafria Sehri time today in Islamabad? The Fiqa Jafari Sehri time today is 04:32 AM in Islamabad. It ends slightly earlier than Sunni timings, adhering to specific Shia practices for ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

Is a Shiite crescent extending from Beirut to Tehran emerging in the Middle East, as Sunni Arab leaders in Egypt ... Nasr writes in his new book, The Shia Revival, that war in Iraq will not ...

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The proposed three-year project will address the Sunni-Shia sectarian strife in selected Middle East contexts through ecumenical ... Jenin, Nablus, Gush Etzion, Tekoa, etc. where I conducted ...

All the Shia groups survived politically but appeared unlikely to regroup, rearm, or win back control of territory militarily anytime soon. Across the region, Sunnis gained more political prominence ...

The two men in their sixties (their names have been changed for security reasons), the first a Sunni and the second an Alawite, spoke at length about the situation in Syria. Their conversation on ...

The survivors returned, reassured by the withdrawal of the Sunni Islamist factions accused ... a religious group that broke away from Shia Islam – unfolded in several acts.