Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

His Highness Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, leader of Ismaili Muslims worldwide, died Feb. 4. Almas Muscatwalla writes ...

The show has also been criticised by religious figures in Egypt over its depiction of early ... were among the most prominent early adversaries to Islam. In 630, after the Muslims captured Mecca ...

Islamic Heritage sites are distributed all over the world, even in the most unexpected places. Traveling and visiting the ...

Dr Mahmood Kooria is an internationally acclaimed historian and researcher who recently won the Infosys award for social ...

The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria ... His most recent books are "Judaism and Islam as Synergistic Monotheisms' and "Which Religion Is Right For You?: ...

Perhaps, then, the rise of Islam should be read "in reverse"—not ... For nearly two years, Zenobia reigned over the Levant, Egypt, and eastern Anatolia, relying in part on the region’s ...

CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts. For Muslims, it’s a time of ...

The appointment is aimed at driving Accor's growth and expansion in the region. Accor appoints Islam Samad as VP development ...