The turbahs – which are pieces of clay that many Shia Muslims use during prayer – were donations to the university and came directly from Iraq. The next day, the Ahlul Bayt Student Association at ...

He was a U.S. citizen, member of the Druze community and had a master's degree in accounting from Oklahoma Christian ...

Shia Muslims believe that the most qualified leaders of the new faith community were descendants of the prophet appointed by him, ordained by God and supported by the people; ...

From July 13 to 20, clashes between Druze militia groups and Sunni tribes in southern Syria drew in Syrian government forces, ...

Shia Muslims make up a minority within the larger Muslim American community, which itself is only about 1% of the U.S. population. Following a different lineage of successors to the Prophet ...

Nimr al-Nimr was just one of 47 people Saudi Arabia executed on Saturday, but his death laid bare the volatile divide that has cleaved Islam for nearly 1,400 years and now threatens to re-ignite a ...

FAIYAZ JAFFER: Most young Shia muslims in this country have experienced rhetoric, language, even a casual microaggression targeting or mocking their religious beliefs, unfortunately.

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 ...

Two Shia Muslims are scheduled to go on trial in a religious court this week over allegations that they possessed books that violate an edict that only the Sunni branch of Islam can be promoted in ...