In a tranquil compound at the foot of sacred Mount Kulen, a former opposition politician is preparing his followers for the ...

Yet among the ruins, one symbol was miraculously spared: an octagon, a Christian sign of the Resurrection, mistaken by ISIS for Islamic art. “Even when they tried to erase us, God left us a ...

Do you remember when they destroyed his statue in his birthplace ... and to become a Sunni. I used my extensive knowledge of Islam as a lifeline, a lottery ticket that saved my life and it ...

The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has drawn rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq. By Ismaeel Naar ...

According to Shia tradition, Ali and, in turn, his successors would receive a special, divine knowledge (ilm) accessible only to those human beings God would choose. For Sunni Muslims, this idea ...

The Earth God statues are put at the back of the house, near a skylight where natural light shines down. He initially placed a few statues in the living room, in the front area of the house, but as ...

After the bloodletting on the Syrian coast, Muslims in Europe rejoiced. There are images from Vienna of thousands of Sunni Muslims with ... is better than the other. God made ‘em all.

Imam Mohamed Herbert, of the Islamic Center of Johnson County, says Ramadan's 30 days of fasting from sunrise to sunset is "a time of extreme spirituality, of closeness to God, and it's about ...

Once powerful under the previous regime, the Alawites now face retribution from rebel groups and the oppressed Sunni population ... Originating from Shia Islam, they have distinct beliefs and ...

But the ruthless domination of Syria by Alawites for the next 58 years caused the country’s majority Sunni Muslim population ... “I swear by God we will mince them in grinders and feed their ...

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic, or Hijri, calendar. Muslims believe that God revealed the first verses of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel during Ramadan.