Islam

Al-Azhar has concluded preparations for a grand celebration to be organized on Sunday, marking the 1,079th Hijri anniversary for the…

Their Uighur wives vanished in 2017, swept up in a Chinese dragnet tackling Islamic extremism, now they’ve been released —…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — At 12:10 p.m. Friday, men and boys in a Muslim neighborhood in Sri Lanka’s capital…

An observatory body of Al-Azhar Sunni association released a statement firmly condemning discriminatory slurs by a group of Chelsea fans…

The man accused of shooting dead 50 Muslim worshippers in a Christchurch mosque sat impassively Friday as a New Zealand…

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb met on Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to Cairo, where they…

Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, the government’s principal Islamic legal institution for issuing fatwas (religious edicts), warned on Monday against April Fool’s…

Pope Francis on Saturday joined Morocco’s King Mohammed VI in saying Jerusalem should be a “symbol of peaceful coexistence” for…

Pope Francis arrives in Morocco on Saturday for a visit which will see him meet Muslim leaders and migrants ahead…

Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s most prestigious religious institution, announced on Friday that it would establish a unit called “Bayan”…