The local Shia Muslim community will honor Imam Hussain, a martyr who defended Islam with a small group of supporters against an Iraqi army nearly 1,400 years ago, with an event on Saturday in ...

On one side, what became Sunni Islam gradually settled on the idea that authority would have to be worked out ...

An ancient religious divide is helping fuel a resurgence of conflicts in the Middle East and Muslim countries. Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to ...

Faith-based community enrichment and educating the ASU community about Islamic values are at the forefront of the Al-Mahdi Association, an organization created last semester to establish a space for ...

In case of abuse, For most of its history, Shi‘a Islam carried around a tension it never fully settled. The Twelfth Imam was ...

Muslims must re-examine assumptions rather than rely on older polemical writings. There is a need for informed engagement over generalisation in inter-sectarian discourse. Prof Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi ...

In the months before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, a Dearborn cleric emerged as one of the leading public voices in support of the push to topple the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shia Muslim devotees gather between the shrines of Imam Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas (background) and Imam Hussein (not pictured) in ...

Harvard does not have a University-ordained chaplain for Shia Muslim affiliates on campus, but some Shia students said it has not significantly impacted their experience at Harvard. Out of Harvard’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muslim leaders in Michigan gathered in a Dearborn Heights mosque to call for peace and an end to the war against Iran as mourners ...

Muslim leaders in Michigan spoke out against the Iran war, calling for peace, as mourners remembered people killed in the ...