JEDDAH, - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Thursday issued a decree stating that only

The Saudi monarch will ask the grand mufti to submit the list

King Abdullah: only members of Council of Senior Scholars allowed to issue religious edicts.

senior clerics are permitted to issue fatwas or…

With President Barack Obama sending a letter to Iraq's Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,

American myths can be so dangerous. They are often taken out of context and revised. They are changed for the convenience of a self-righteous and us versus them kind of mentality, says Dallas Darling.

trying to persuade him to assist the country's divided…

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Wednesday urged Iran to make a "humanitarian gesture"

Brazilian FM urges Tehran for 'humanitarian gesture' that could be 'good for Iran', its image

towards a woman its courts have condemned to death by stoning for adultery.

"Who can say that a humanitarian gesture won't be good for Iran, for its image in the world?"…

JERUSALEM - Israeli bulldozers backed by police destroyed dozens of gravestones in a

Israel 'does not want us to renovate the graves'

More than 200 Muslim recently renovated graves in centuries-old Jerusalem cemetery destroyed.

Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem on Tuesday,…

After their father died two years ago, Raseel and Anwar left their family to work in a car garage, joining

'The only solution to this problem is to improve Yemen's economy'

Study: five million poor Yemeni children forced into impoverished country's…

MECCA - Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the

An artist's illustration of the Mecca Clock Tower

World's largest clock to enter service in Mecca with three-month trial period from…

Ramadhan 2010...رمضان 1431 ه…

This is not how she imagined her visit to Israel. Prof. Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of Health

Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton's secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name

and Human Services for eight years under Clinton and is currently the president of the University of Miami, was held for two-and-a-half…

Historically, Iran has been a land of prominent, influential figures in science, letters, arts and literature whose

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Unforgettable name in the memory of the world

ابن سینا ...…

TEHRAN - Iran has scrapped a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) project which was to be executed by

'Natural' gas sanctions

New wave of sanctions forces Iran to scrap second LNG project after big Western companies…

DUBAI - Workers contending with high heat and humidity can break their Ramadan fasts to avoid health

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'When you don't take water and these things, you're very at risk'…

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani

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The last resort?

US…

RABAT - Morocco on Friday accused a Spanish civil guard border patrol of abandoning eight sub-Saharan

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'In complete contradiction with respect for human dignity'

Rabat blasts Spain's 'inhuman…

Despite the recent barrage of news on the ridiculous niqab/hijab/burqa bans restricting women’s entry into

by Arwa Aburawa

education, it turns out that Muslim women are some of the best educated women in…

In recent weeks, Republican politics and attempts across America to block the building of mosques have

Founding director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University…

Every morning the two girls wake up before dawn, row their wooden skiff out into Gaza's heavily-

'Girls like us have to work as fishermen despite the dangers'

Madeleine, 16, sister Reem, 13, brave gunfire to make ends meet for family in…

IN 1871,THE English anthropologist and social Darwinist E.B.Tylor formulated the generally accepted and classical

The terms are compelling, but…

IT HAPPENED IN the Masjid of Madinah, the Mosque of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhe wa…