For Kashmir’s Shias, and now increasingly some Sunnis, the war in West Asia is not a remote spectacle. It is intimately ...

Because the Hijri calendar is lunar, the dates of Islamic months and holidays — such as Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr — change annually. The new year corresponds with the first sighting of the crescent moon ...

Journalists at LeMan are in fear for their lives after the Turkish satirical magazine published cartoons appearing to depict ...

Sufi Muslims perform Zikr, or remembrance of God, as they sing Islamic songs during a parade to commemorate the beginning of the Islamic new year, 1446 Hijri, in Cairo, Egypt, July 7, 2024.

A string of Mughal-era monuments and colonial-era structures have undergone a facelift under an expansive conservation drive started by the Delhi government, and work on more is underway. Under the ...

Because the Hijri calendar is lunar, the dates of Islamic months and holidays — such as Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr — change ...

Shia clerics and scholars, especially in Gilgit-Baltistan ... A Regular Columnist with Newageislam.com, Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi is an Indo-Islamic scholar, Sufi poet and English-Arabic-Urdu-Hindi writer ...

Morocco and Iran have shared a complex relationship shaped by intellectual exchange, Sufi influence, and failed diplomatic overtures, later compounded by Cold War alliances and ideological tensions.

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

According to Sufi researcher Abul al-Fadl al-Isnawi, the al-Malatiya, al-Qosariya, al-Khoraziya, al-Hallagiya, al-Nouriya orders all appeared in the third and fourth centuries of the hegira.