ʿĀSHŪRĀʾ is the tenth day of Muḥarram, the first month of the Muslim calendar. Its general significance as a fast day for Muslims derives from the rites of the Jewish Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). The Arabic...
The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar (Arabic: التقويم الهجري; at-taqwīm al-hijrī; Persian: تقویم هجري قمری taqwīm-e hejri-ye qamari; also called the Hijri calendar) is the calendar used to date events in many...
HE SITS on his bed studying the Koran. Behind him the wall is decorated with photographs of pretty girls. It's an incongruous image but Feroz Abbasi, according to his friends, was always an unlikely Muslim extremist. Growing up in Croydon, South-West London,...
HE SITS on his bed studying the Koran. Behind him the wall is decorated with photographs of pretty girls. It's an incongruous image but Feroz Abbasi, according to his friends, was always an unlikely Muslim extremist. Growing up in Croydon, South-West London,...
An influential Sunni clerical organization urged Shiite Muslims on Monday to cancel a march toward a destroyed shrine in an Iraqi central city, warning that such a move will further enflame sectarian hatred.The statement by the Association of Muslim Scholars was in response to a...
Bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq on Saturday, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.The attacks came hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad for ordering the killings of...
