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

The previous articles centered on the origins of Shiite Islam and its political history to examine the Shiite basis for ...

An official said that a lathi charge was carried out to bring the situation under control near Khajurwadi Masjid under ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Significantly, the Sufi understanding of Yaum-e-Ghadir provides a balanced, unifying, and deeply spiritual interpretation. It emphasizes Imam Ali’s spiritual legacy over political claims, ...

Under Pakistan’s administration, what survives of Kashmiriyat? Where are its Sufi dargahs? Where is the Shia identity of Gilgit-Baltistan? Where is the voice of the Balti and the Burusho?

Sufi groups have joined Shia Muslims in India in the campaign asking the Saudi Arabian government to restore the Jannatul Baqi tombs in Medina that were destroyed in 1925.