As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...
The Middle East Forum, a conservative nonprofit focused on Islamic issues, has described Al-Husainy as “a radical ...
Ayatollah Lotfollah Dezhkam told worshipers in Shiraz during Friday prayers that "God willing, we will turn the White House ...
Famous Shia cleric Maulana Syed Ahmed Ali Abdi emphasized the importance of education, stating that true love for Prophet ...
"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in Washington, D.C., in October 2002, countering a nearby anti-war rally as the ...
Alawism is a version of Shia Islam, with a central belief in metempsychosis (the transfer of souls) that Sunni Muslim reject. The Washington Institute says that much of Alawite doctrine "is a ...
Buildings are rundown and in need of repairs. This area is dominated by people from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious ...
Apart from this, there are Shia groups, Druzes, and Christian minorities in Syria, but you will be surprised to know that before becoming the stronghold of Islam, Syria was considered to be the ...
IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of ...
Recently, the Shia Scholars' Council and the High Commission for Shia Affairs in Afghanistan held their first joint meeting ...