A social media video shot in Melbourne, Australia, shows Shi’ite Muslims paying homage to the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson, ...

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

We’re not strictly speaking very Muslim really. Under Assad we just subscribed to all that to create a power block with Shi’a in Lebanon, and in Iran, to support our minority rule.

RNS spoke to Khoja-Moolji about her new book, “Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality,” forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

There are concerns within Muslim communities that those men may have been murdered because of sectarian hate towards Shia Muslims. Sunni and Shia leaders have united to denounce the killings.

This past March, three Islamic State-inspired extremists plotted to attack a Shi’a Muslim mosque in Chicago. I’m a Shiite Muslim, and threats of violence against my religious community have ...

Shia and Sunni are two sects of Islam. Shias make up approximately 15% of the world’s Muslim population, with the majority 85% being Sunni, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. “We stand in ...

Sistani has a wide following among Shi’a Muslims outside of Iraq as well. Authorities in neighboring Iran, home to the world’s largest Shi’a population, hinted at a less wide-ranging exemption.

The U.S. report also cited UN officials in Afghanistan as saying the Taliban "had marginalized the minority Shi'a Muslim population in an effort to force them to leave the country." ...

Views on women’s participation in public life also vary considerably between the Taliban’s interpretation of Shari'a and mainstream attitudes in other mostly Muslim countries. Afghanistan's ...

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.