Topic: Abu Bakr

Indonesia Shias under pressure

Religious tensions in Indonesia have heated up once again after calls by some Sunni Muslim religious leaders to ban Shia Islam led to attacks on a...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is taking legal action to prevent the publication of a photo montage showing the pope kissing a leading imam as part of...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Thursday that it was taking legal action to prevent the publication of a photo montage showing the pope kissing a...
ROME — Italian clothes company Benetton backed down and pulled a photo montage showing the Pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad...
By Nafez Qawas, The Daily Star (Lebanon). . BEIRUT — Muslim, Christian and Druze religious leaders emphasized the need to maintain the Christian...

Doha Diaries: Part 1

My recent Qatar Airways flight from Washington, D.C. direct to Doha, the capital of Qatar, took almost 14 hours, but it was the most civilized...

Iraqi lawmakers lift ban on Sunni politicians

0 . Iraq's parliament took a major step Saturday toward creating a unity government, lifting a ban on three Sunni politicians who were barred from ...
The word “fitnah” has many connotations in the Qur'an and Sunnah. The most common meaning of this word is “trial” - that is, any situation or...

The Khwarezm Shahs

Atsiz was the military leader who, after Sultan Sanjar's capture in 1153, succeeded in supplanting Seljuq power in northeastern Iran. Regions elsewhere in Iran, on the passing of Seljuq supremacy, became independent under atabegs, who were originally proxy fathers and tutors ...

Hariri court president appeals for acceptance

0 . The president of a U.N.-backed tribunal set up to prosecute the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri made an impassioned ...