The Prophet Mohammed, according to a new study, was the first military general in Islam Without his military genius, according to its author, Islam would not have survived his death ...

In an era when narratives of the past are too often appropriated for divisive ends, the distinction between history and fiction must be vigilantly preserved ...

TEHRAN - Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, is widely believed to be the 38th direct descendant of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), according to religious ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula, Tunis and Nouakchott, now the capital of Mauretania, and how the city’s ...

The transition to the Messianic Age is called the birth pangs of the Messiah. The birth of a redeemed Messianic world may be the result of easy or difficult labor. If everyone would simply live ...

On October 27, 1978, only five years after Egypt started the Yom Kippur War with a surprise attack on Israel, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named ...

The 'Id al-Kabir is indeed the great festival. It is great because of the merger that it evolves between the profane and the sacred.This is a festival that predates Prophet Muhammad (may His ...

They then head to Mina, the site of a giant tented city, before the hajj's high-point: prayers on Mount Arafat, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have delivered his final sermon.

Fasting in the sense of not eating for a specific time upavasa or abstaining from specific substances during certain periods is a wellestablished part of all Hindu spiritual practices In the early tim ...