Shia identity is rooted in victimhood over the killing of Husayn, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, in the seventh century and a long history of marginalization by the Sunni majority. Islam's dominant ...

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The local Shia Muslim community will honor Imam Hussain, a martyr who defended Islam with a small group of supporters against an Iraqi army nearly 1,400 years ago, with an event on Saturday in ...

FEDERAL COURTS UNDERSTAND the First Amendment ban on establishing religion to mean that government may not prefer one religion, or sect, over another. Why then has New York state, in treating the ...

Lucknow: Lucknow's prominent Islamic scholars and community members have voiced strong concern over the escalating situation ...

(RNS) — Shenila Khoja-Moolji's new book records the histories of women in her faith community that are absent from religious archives. (RNS) — In 1971, Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s grandmother was a widow ...

Mumbai: Members of the Shia Muslim community from across the country will be meeting in Lucknow on December 28 to discuss the possibility of a common civil code in India and to demand a commission to ...

Shi’ite Muslims marked Ashura on Thursday, a day of pain, pilgrimage, and pageantry that is one of the holiest in their religion. The word Ashura means 10, and the holiday is the tenth day of Muharram ...

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