In a decision being hailed as a major step toward female equality in the Islamic world, the grand mufti of Egypt has said that Muslim women have no obligation to prove their virginity to prospective ...
Professor of Arabic language Wael Farouq decried the violence perpetrated by Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq, saying, ‘Islamic practice today needs a deep reform to the conception of every Muslim that ...
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SRINAGAR: A Hajj training programme was organized jointly by Anjuman Nusrat-ul-Islam and Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar at the Central Hall Auditorium of Islamia Higher Secondary School. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Grand Mufti, who had lost his sight as a teenager, prays in Riyadh during Eid, 2010 - Hassan Ammar Sheikh ...
More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world endorsed an open letter to the “fighters and followers” of the so-called Islamic State, denouncing them as un-Islamic in the most Islamic of terms.
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Some of the world's most well-known Islamic scholars are launching a self-regulating professional association that will develop training and professional conduct standards ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) "Please stop calling them the 'Islamic State,' because they are not a state and they are not religious," said Ahmed Bedier, a Muslim and the president of United Voices of America.