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 ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...

Kyrgyzstan has outlawed the all-covering Islamic niqab. Authorities insists the ban does not extend to the hijab, the Islamic ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobles in A.D. 958. Their motive, even by the turbulent politics of the day, was an unusual one ...

KOZHIKODE: After a brief lull, jinn possession and black magic have again become a topic of live discussion among the Mujahid ...

The figure is based on government statistics, percentages of Muslims in the population by country and membership figures of the Association for Islamic Studies in Japan. Their study showed that ...

Donald Trump says he ordered military air strikes on a senior attack planner and others from the Islamic State (IS) group in Somalia. "These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the ...

The reason there has been a split into different branches is due to differences in belief about who was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Muslim community after his ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of followers from the Layene ...

Islamic date today in Pakistan is calculated as per the lunar-based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know the exact Islamic date today or chand ki ...

Today Islamic date in Bangladesh is calculated as per the lunar-based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know about the exact Islamic date today or ...