Nimr al-Nimr was just one of 47 people Saudi Arabia executed on Saturday, but his death laid bare the volatile divide that has cleaved Islam for nearly 1,400 years and now threatens to re-ignite a ...

Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears ...

Shia Islam is a recent import to the country, and most of Nigeria’s 2-4 million Shi’ites are followers of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the IMN.

The Sunni and Shia sects of Islam encompass a wide spectrum of doctrine, opinion and schools of thought. The branches are in agreement on many aspects of Islam, but there are considerable ...

In spite of all these hot-spots and sectarian fighting, most Americans would be hard-pressed to offer an accurate assessment of the particularities of Shi’i and Sunni dimensions of Islam.

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Arbaeen procession in Dearborn, Michigan, the heart of the largest Shiite community in the US, which was heavily secured and widely covered in US and international media.

The centre is aimed at the 13,000 Shia seminarians studying in Najaf, and will house seven auditoriums, a library for 1.5m books and a Turkish bath; its teaching staff, says Mr Khoei, will be ...

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The most refreshing part of the book under review is its proclivity to tap the sources hitherto ignored by the experts on South Asian Islam, that is, sources mainly in Urdu, left behind by the South ...