Almost 100 people were killed recently when a suicide bomber targeted Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan. Closer to home, a Sufi cleric's plans to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero have ...

Shia leaders in Iraq have been debating the appropriateness of adopting “velayat-e-faqih” in that country; ... Historically, Shiraz has been a center for Iran’s Sufi intellectuals.

A comprehensive Human Rights Watch review of Education Ministry-produced textbooks for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years found that some practices associated with the Shia and Sufi Islamic ...

Some Saudi state clerics and institutions incite hatred and discrimination against religious minorities, including the country’s Shia Muslim minority. This hate speech prolongs the systematic ...

Most of the world’s Muslims identify as Sunnis or Shias. 8 However, many Muslims do not identify with either sect but rather see themselves as “just a Muslim.” At least one-in-five Muslims in 22 of ...

The bomb and gun attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai region killed at least 305 people, including 27 children, authorities said, in what amounted to a dramatic increase in the ...

In their raids, Wahhabi fighters would often destroy shrines and places of worship belonging to the Shia and Sufi orders; in 1802, an army led by Mohammed’s son Saud even attacked one of the ...

However, the destruction of the Mosul mosque also follows a pattern of ISIS destroying symbolically rich religious sites, such as Coptic churches in Egypt, and Shia and Sufi shrines in Iraq and ...

However, the destruction of the Mosul mosque also follows a pattern of ISIS destroying symbolically rich religious sites, such as Coptic churches in Egypt, and Shia and Sufi shrines in Iraq and ...