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  IN THE NAME OF GOD THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL “Glory be to Him who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Mosque of which we have blessed the precincts, so that we may show to him some of our signs; surely …

Muhammad ibn Muhammad an-Nu‘man ash-Shaykh Abu ‘Abdillah al-Mufid, Ibnu ‘l-Mu‘allim, al-‘Ukbari al-Baghdadi (336/948–413/1022) was the teacher of the Shaykhu ‘t-Taifah, Abu Ja‘far at-Tusi, who said of him:The leadership of the Imamiyyah in his own time devolved upon him; he was foremost in the science and practice of dialectical theology (kalam), …

A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the ‘triple-exthnics’ didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult …

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun dismantling some of the oldest sections of Islam’s most important mosque as part of a highly controversial multi-billion pound expansion. Photographs obtained by The Independent reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the …

Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do it Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of Islam’s second holiest site. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi …

Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do it Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of Islam’s second holiest site. Work on the Masjid an-Nabawi …

How far is Wahhabi Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the Islamic world? Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a …

Hasn’t Mahdi Appeared? In the history of Islam, approximately from the beginning, we see the names of those who had called themselves “promised Mahdi”, or others had called them so, and had big claims, or others had considered for them; although, none of this claimant were not successful in correcting …

This is how the grotesque and gruesome game is played and promoted, not by any global terrorist network, but by the so-called civilized, and peace loving advocates of civil liberties and Human Rights. France, Austria, Germany and Spain have been named as the foremost violators with respect to paying millions …