a prominent Islamic scholar and jurist, best known as the founder of the Shafi’i school of thought, one of the four major Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence. His full name was Muhammad ibn ...

While secularist historians emphasise this political pragmatism, Samira Sheikh shows how Aurangzeb’s Sunni bigotry arguably ...

He eventually morphed into a fiery spokesman for the Nation of Islam who once said ... name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and was moving toward another identity as a Sunni Muslim and a Pan-African ...

The scars of ISIS still linger in Iraq, and the threat of extremism has not vanished. But hope has taken root in the ...

Women bear the brunt of economic pressures and social restrictions in Iran — yet they remain the driving force for change in the country.

The stark reality that has emerged from the violence in Parachinar is that Pakistan, a country that prides itself on being an ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

IMPACT-SE, an organization that monitors how various countries educate for tolerance, conducted a new study titled "Israel and Jews in Azerbaijani Education", which examines Azerbaijani textbooks' app ...

The Baloch — a Sunni minority in an otherwise predominantly ... I was summoned and interrogated several times," said Mohebi. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women in Iran have been required ...

Many of Turkey’s Kurds view Mr. Ocalan as a potent symbol of the struggle for Kurdish ... directly related to Turkish or Arabic. Most are Sunni Muslims. The Kurds were promised a nation of ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

Challenges to his power during four decades of rule came from two sources — within the Assad family itself, and more ...