Reducing Muharram to history and law misses its deeper message — one that speaks to a wounded but rising Ummah in Gaza and ...

Ashura falls on the 10th of Muharram. It honours the martyrdom of Imam Hussein. The day also marks important historical ...

Villagers in south Lebanon, hit last year by Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, find new meaning in the observance of the Shia ...

Iraq’s boundless hospitality is in full force during the celebration—­volunteers provide not only free food and water but ...

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

The religion of Islam stands on four foundational pillars: knowledge, action, time, and worship. Among these, the recognition ...

The video is from the Hosseini Infants Ceremony, an annual ritual held on the first Friday of the Islamic month of Muharram.

Israel and Iran entered a fragile ceasefire on June 24, the day after Israel struck Evin Prison. Last weekend, the U.S.

Thousands of Iranians took to the streets to mourn around 60 people who were killed in Israeli strikes over the past few ...

MUSCAT: Muslims around the world marked the arrival of the Hijri New Year, AH 1447, on June 27, which corresponds to Muharram ...

In one of the best Hadith collections, Saheeh Muslim in particular, there are a number of hadiths which some scholars said were weak or problematic, including Abu’l-Hasan ad-Daaraqtni, Abu ‘Ali ...

The United Arab Emirates has announced that the Islamic New Year holiday will fall on Friday June 27, giving all workers in ...